Queer Disruptions IIby Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Council at Columbia University in the Cit...Queer Disruptions II is the second convening of scholars, activists and artists from the U.S. and abroad to explore the ways that queer studies, policies and practices theorize, transform and reimagine scholarship and generate new social possibilities.THURSDAY, MARCH 1

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

From Pulitzer-winning author of the bestselling Ghost Wars comes a tale of invisible warfare. Against the backdrop of the war in Afghanistan, a shadowy conflict between the United States military and a subgroup of Pakistan’s intelligence agency known as “Directorate S” threatened to further destabilize an already protracted and complex conflict. Author Steve Coll sheds light on this struggle in the shadows, and how it has fueled a seemingly endless war overseas.

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This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement.

FRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism, science, nature, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.

The NYC Democratic Socialists of AmericaSocialist Feminist Working Group will host an 8-week-long mixed-gender reading group on reproductive justice. Our intent is to give participants a thorough understanding of debates and contemporary issues surrounding reproductive justice [or freedom] in the hope of connecting our praxis to theory.

The term “reproductive justice” was created by black women activists in 1994. It refers to an understanding of reproductive rights and activism that goes beyond “abortion rights” and the language of “choice” in favor of a holistic understanding of human rights. SisterSong defines the term as “three interconnected human rights values: the right not to have children using safe birth control, abortion, or abstinence; the right to have children under the conditions we choose; and the right to parent the children we have in safe and healthy environments.”

Location: The Nation, 520 8th Avenue, 21st floor (You will need a photo ID to enter the building. If the office is locked try ringing the doorbell but someone should be there to greet you.)

Please feel free to read long with us at home if you can't make it in person! Here is the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/197jWoHgqNT-xR-gmq4DErrCmOxmeyZtv0esBbBCLyJI/edit?usp=sharing

The reproductive justice paradigm takes into account the impact of oppressions such as class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status, all of which influence one's reproductive freedom. We will discuss the eugenics movement, population control, sterilization abuse, the legacy of Margaret Sanger, violence, welfare, LGBTQ rights, and the US healthcare system.

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (2016), an examination of the history and politics of Black America and the development of the social movement Black Lives Matter in response to police violence in the United States. Taylor’s research examines race and public policy including American housing policies. Dr. Taylor is currently working on a manuscript titled Race for Profit: Black Housing and the Urban Crisis of the 1970s, which looks at the federal government's promotion of single-family homeownership in Black communities after the urban rebellions of the 1960s. Taylor looks at how the federal government's turn to market-based solutions in its low-income housing programs in the 1970s impacted Black neighborhoods, Black women on welfare, and emergent discourses on the urban “underclass." Taylor is interested in the role of private sector forces, typically hidden in public policy making and execution, in the “urban crisis” of the 1970s.

This is the second public event in BCRW's Poverty and Housing Working Group series.

This event is free and open to the public. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

Chokehold: laws and practices that treat every African American man like a thug. In this explosive new book, an African American former federal prosecutor shows that the system is working exactly the way it’s supposed to. Black men are always under watch, and police violence is widespread—all with the support of judges and politicians.

Paul Butler teaches at Georgetown University Law School. He provides legal commentary for CNN, MSNBC, and NPR and has been featured on 60 Minutes and profiled in the Washington Post. He was nominated for this year's NAACP Image Award.

. Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920Kevin McGruderWednesday, Feb. 7, 7:00pmKevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and reveals the complex interactions between whites and African Americans at a critical time of migration and development--and how Harlem became a symbol of the possibilities and challenges black populations faced across the U.S.Kevin McGruder is assistant professor of history at Antioch College. He studies African American institutions, urban history, and gay and lesbian history.

. Behold the DreamersImbolo MbueThursday, Feb. 15, 7:00pmAn Oprah Book Club pick, this absorbing debut novel tells the story of Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant to America, along with his wife Neni and their six-year old son Liomi. It takes place in NYC during the financial meltdown of 2007-09. "No false notes here, no narrative shortcuts, and certainly no manufactured happy endings" -- National Public RadioFACEBOOK LOGO Imbolo Mbue's home is Limbe, Cameroon. She lives in New York City. In 2017, she won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Behold the Dreamers.

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$6,500...where we are so far in our winter campaign to raise $10,000.Deadline: Sunday, January 21, 2018

We enter 2018 with the world and the planet itself in peril. RB is needed now more than ever. And there is no Revolution Books without you.

Give now, as much as you can, to fill the shelves with hundreds more books, pay the bills, and promote this place -- the only bookstore on a mission to provide people with the books and engagement to know and change the world... for the emancipation of all humanity.

“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven

The writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon, it published Traven’s first novel, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers), of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven's other works his name is Gale, or Gerard Gales), an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Death Ship, and the six volume series we will read this term.

The Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for revolt, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

The Jungle NovelsThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations,

Government (1931)Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.

March to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.

Trozas (1936)Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz's rule.

The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) ISBNThis fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.

A General from the Jungle (1940)Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate, uneducated, and poor, but resourceful and dangerous.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

Queer Disruptions IIby Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Council at Columbia University in the Cit...Queer Disruptions II is the second convening of scholars, activists and artists from the U.S. and abroad to explore the ways that queer studies, policies and practices theorize, transform and reimagine scholarship and generate new social possibilities.THURSDAY, MARCH 1

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

The Inaugural March with Women Against War will be taking place Sat., March 3 in commemoration of International Women's Day. We meet at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Monument in Downtown Newark.

Calling all re:SISTERS!!!! Transnational Feminists and Womanists! Help us end the war. The war on Black people, the war for oil, the war on people without papers, the war for resources, the war that is killing people in Libya, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Syria. The wars EVERYWHERE!

For your organization to sign on to this march please message us here or email at 1635schl@gmail.com or call 213-842-0474.

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

EVERYTHING IS KOOKOO BANANAS! The king has stolen Purim… Every day is like night and up is down and facts are fiction. The world is drunk and can’t tell the difference between good and evil. In this moment the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committee takes a tiger’s leap into the present with JEWS WITH THORNS, this year's swirl on their annual Purim Shpil and Masquerade Ball, based on the traditional book of Esther.

From practical matters, Aftselakhis has shaped our carnival imaginings: resistance to fascism and authoritarianism, abolition and community autonomy, and the cultures of performance connected to and between Muslim and Jewish worlds.

We seek inspiration in the writings of current and ancestral Jewish sages like Masha Gessen, Irena Klepfiscz and Walter Benjamin. And harvest beautiful and protective wisdom from the venerable ghazal poet Hafez and justice leaders of today: Red Power Activist Madonna Thunder Hawk, Crip Hop Nations Leroy Moore, human rights and sex worker organizer Akynos “The Beast of Burlesque,” and Dilar Dirik, a Kurdish activist and scholar who writes about Rojava and other small keys that unlock enormous doors.

Our message is plain, though our shpil is ornate: You are invited to march forth! Restore the balance of society through the ancient Purim rite of dressing up! And spread the word: the things we really love are an alchemical resource for conjuring strength. - - -

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

Join the Race and Public Space Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge for a lecture by Jovan Scott Lewis about how disadvantaged black youth in Jamaica engaged in the practice of international "lottery scamming" mobilize a reparative logic.

Can't make it? Watch the live-stream on Facebook or Instagram.

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THE REPARATIONS PROJECT

During the Spring of 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

This inquiry will take the form of common readings to explore and frame the central issues, lectures by experts to interrogate the stakes, legal research to evaluate the case, and economic and statistical analysis to explore the feasibility of reparations for peoples and nations victimized by colonial slavery.

The Reparations Project During Spring 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, and Edgar Snow, Red Star over China.

“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, 1938

THE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

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The Future of FeminismTuesday, March 6Doors: 6:00 pmEvent: 6:30 pm$5 General Admission / Free for Members

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REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the historic 1968 protests at Barnard and Columbia, BCRW will host a conversation reflecting on the role of Barnard students in these transformative events and the history of campus activism that converged in 1968 and continue into the present. The event will be a curated conversation between alumnae and current student activists reflecting on their activist experiences during and since 1968. In conjunction with this anniversary, BCRW will also present a student-alumnae exhibition drawn from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections. This exhibit explores the political afterlives of 1968 as a historic flashpoint and ongoing process in conversation with contemporary activist movements. With documents from 1968 student struggles against anti-blackness, heteropatriarchy, and racial capitalism; to the feminist, Black radical, queer, anti-war and anti imperial organizations building alternate futures; to our contemporary organizing against securitization, deportation, the prison industrial complex and more, the exhibit animates conversations between activist imaginations across generations.

Details and AccessibilityThis event is free and open to the public. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

The Bronx Defenders is hosting a community forum about commonplace forms of police brutality, including physical violence, harassment, and abuse. We want to hear directly from New Yorkers who have experienced or witnessed these problems in their communities.

The event will include breakout sessions that provide an opportunity for the community to voice their experiences along with their ideas for solutions, and a conversation about steps toward organizing grassroots collective action.

Capital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because, as Marx predicted, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions, we’ve been offering this highlights approach, breaking down key concepts and sections:

• use value, value and surplus value;
• why capitalism has needed conquest, enslavement and white supremacy;
• why capitalism drives technological innovation, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;
• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions.

In a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed, we are offering the highlights class this February through April for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.

Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!

The course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion.

Juliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development.
Wed, February 21, 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Wed, April 25, 2018 @ 8:30 PM
$85 - $115
commodity fetishism, Laws of Motion of Capital, precarity, Primitive Accumulation, surplus value, Technological Innovation, unemployment, value, women and capital, working class, Working Class Consciousness

On March 7, International Women's Day Eve, Joy of Resistance, Multicultural Radio @WBAI is honored to present an advance screening of the newly released critically acclaimed film: "The Rape of Recy Taylor" (http://therapeofrecytaylor.com/) directed by Nancy Buirski, at The Brooklyn Commons (http://thecommonsbrooklyn.org/). Doors open at 6:30 PM; screening at 7:00 PM, followed by panel & discussion. This is a benefit for WBAI (https://wbai.org/) with admission at the door. To order tickets in advance at a reduced rate: https://tinyurl.com/yccpehcr .

Panelists will include Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw, Danielle McGuire (on Skype), CarolAnne Dolan, and Soraya Nadia McDonald.• Dr. Kimberle Crenshaw (https://tinyurl.com/yccpehcr) is the Director of the African American Policy Forum (AAPF), the developer of the concept of "intersectionality" and was a keynote speaker at the recent Women's March.• Danielle M. McGuire's book "At the Dark End of the Street..." (https://tinyurl.com/yd7uvb4n) brought to the attention of the modern public the story of Recy Taylor.• Carolanne Dolan (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0230757/) was an executive producer on "The Rape of Recy Taylor" and is a two-time Emmy winner.• Soraya Nadya McDonald (https://twitter.com/sorayamcdonald) is a culture critic for The Undefeated. You can read her piece on "The Rape of Recy Taylor" here: https://theundefeated.com/features/the-rape-of-recy-taylor-explores-the-little-known-terror-campaign-against-black-women/

Background to the story of Recy Taylor and its place in Civil Rights history:

Recy Taylor was a Black sharecropper in Alabama who, in 1944, was on her way home from church when she was forced into a car at gunpoint by seven white men, taken into the woods and gang raped. Such rapes of Black women were not uncommon in the Jim Crow South. Recy was threatened with death if she told anyone, but she did tell and risked violent retaliation by making a complaint to the local sheriff's office. Her home was firebombed shortly thereafter (the family escaped uninjured). The NAACP came to her aid and sent their best organizer. Her name was Rosa Parks. "The Campaign for Justice for Mrs. Recy Taylor" was the result — and it gained national attention. Although all white, all male juries, twice refused to indict the rapists, the campaign — which later extended to fighting for justice for other Southern Black women who had been raped by white men during Jim Crow and received no justice — laid down much of the organizational foundation of the later flowering of the Civil Rights Movement.

Recy Taylor's story and the political campaign that arose out of it caught the public's attention in 2011, with the publication of Danielle L. McGuire's "At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance–A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power." This story was not part of the usual historical telling of the Civil Rights movement — largely because the conventional history centered on male leaders and not on women's concerns, such as fighting rape.

Because of McGuire's research, this "new history" finally brought new concern with the lack of justice for Recy Taylor (and so many other women who had undergone rape by white men in the south), and forced the Alabama state Legislature to issue a belated apology to Recy Taylor for its denial of justice to her so many years before. McGuire's book is credited by the filmmakers as their inspiration for the film.

The story, while devastating in many ways, is told exquisitely and poetically and is full of period photos, documents, excerpts of earlier films (including "race films" made by the Black community) and period music that creates its own atmosphere.

Please turn out to support WBAI on March 7, and celebrate International Women's Day with this great film and an important discussion about the issues it raises and the lessons it holds for today.

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Women and Oppressed People Rise Up in East Harlem!Celebrate International Women’s Day in Struggle!Saturday Mar. 10, gather 1:00 p.m., E. 116th St. & Lexington Ave. https://www.facebook.com/events/186349165464010/

Join us at the Justice Center En El Barrio Friday at 7:00pm for a volunteer working session for International Women's Day actions on March 8 in Washington Square Parkand on March 10 in East Harlem! . . Subject: Saturday March 10th @ 1pm, Join Us in Celebrating International Women’s Day!From: PSL New York City <nyc@pslweb.org>Date: 2/23/2018 12:50 PM

Volunteers Meeting Friday Feb. 23rd 7 - 9 p.m.

International Women’s Day originated more than 100 years ago as a day to celebrate the political, economic and social gains of women won through struggle. On March 8, 1857, New York women took to the streets to protest dangerous working conditions for women textile workers. To this day, International Women’s Day serves as a reminder of the need for militant fight back in the unfinished struggle for women’s liberation. Across the world, people gather to celebrate the women’s struggle but also to rally against the oppression of women and for full equality.

We know equality has not been achieved. Because of the capitalist system, women constantly struggle for our economic survival, to care for our families, to defend our bodies, to overcome daily sexism and gender-based violence in the face of imperialist war and aggression.

The #MeToo upswelling of accusations and revelations exposed a dark, violent side to existence under capitalism that women were familiar with but often couldn’t speak openly about. Violence against women and sexual assault is a prevalent oppressive force in this society--one where aggressors are free to act with impunity and victims are often shamed when they speak up.

The Trump administration has increased attacks on immigrants and uses them as scapegoats for the growing poverty rates and lack of jobs. Current immigration policy only serves to split up families and fuel deportations. Women and children account for ¾ of all immigrants into the United States. Some immigrant women are forced to choose between staying in an abusive relationship or being deported if they report their abuser. Meanwhile congress controls the discretionary spending of more than a trillion in tax money—with over half of it going to imperialist wars and intervention. Housing, education, jobs and health combined receive less than a quarter of that money and budgets for social programs continue to get slashed disproportionately affecting women.

Women in the United States are also going to jail at explosive rates. The population of women in prison has more than double the rate of men since 1978, with Black women being incarcerated at four times the rate of white women. Eighty-six percent of women in U.S. jails have reported experiencing sexual violence at some point in their life at the hands of correction officers. While our sisters are getting locked up at alarming number, our sisters are being brutally killed by the police or losing loved ones at the hands of killer cops who get to walk free.

This year’s Women March brought out working-women of all backgrounds demanding an end to violence against women, protection for the DREAMers, LGBTQ rights, as well as ending racism. The organizers focused this energy on electing the Democrats in the 2018 elections. We cannot put hopes on the Democratic party to be the party of resistance. Fueled by the midterm elections, they chant “today we march, tomorrow we vote” only to fall short on their promises and betray the same people who elected them.

Working-class women have always been at the forefront of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements and leaders in political movements demanding indigenous rights and environmental justice, from Honduras to Palestine, for the protection of immigrants and defense of our communities locally, and in Black liberation struggles throughout history. When we stand up, organize, and fight back, we can win. We can, and we must say “No More!” We must continue fighting to keep the gains we have made and mobilizing to demand full equality for all. This is the way we honor International Women’s Day: as a celebration of struggle and a day to look ahead towards continuing to build the struggle for women’s equality and equality for all. The women united will never be defeated!

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Join us at the Justice Center En El Barrio this Friday at 7pm for a volunteer working session for International Women's Day actions on March 8 in Washington Square Park and on March 10th in East Harlem!

We will be connecting and building with each other, in addition to creating essential materials for the rallies! Activities during the work session will include:

banner painting making placards creating promotional social media content, including taking photos at a custom photo booth where you can take a picture and express why you will be striking/marching making paper flowers

All are encouraged to attend--open to the public, bring your friends! Snacks and light refreshments will be available.

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Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

For over 9 years, Isaac Pollack has illegally deprived the tenants of 332 Rutland Road of their right to a superintendent for 9 years. Isaac Pollack’s refusal to hire a super has meant no access to emergency services during evening and weekends, in case of leaks, heat, hot water issues, or boiler room fires.

Please COME OUT to Court on March 8 & Stand with The 332 Rutland Road Tenants Association in their fight to win a super and repairs for their building.Wear your #BrooklynIsNOTforSale or #DefendBrooklyn T-shirts or wear Black9:30am141 Livingston St. Brooklyn, NY 11237

On March 8, the International Women's Strike NYC - a coalition representing dozens of grassroots groups and labor organizations - is organizing a number of actions in support of labor campaigns, migrants' rights, Sanctuary Campus campaigns, and others.

At 4 PM there will be a rally in Washington Square Park. The rally will open with an artistic performance created by Alejandra Ballón Gutiérrez (Arequipa, Peru 1975), “La Alfombra Roja”, and songs by singers Natalia Saez, Renee Ghoust and Liah Alonso. “La Alfombra Roja” project was created to make visible the terrible effects of patriarchal relations on women’s lives. Among the forms of violence that affect women, it was used to denounce the criminal policies of forced sterilization of indigenous women, carried out in the Nineties by the then-President of Peru, Alberto Fujimori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kw_4d2pL9Q.

At 5:30 PM we will march * to * Zuccotti Park. The march will make some stops along the way, with performances in front of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory site, the Varick Street Immigration Detention Center, Stonewall, City Hall, the African Burial Ground and the former slave market, a financial institution funding the Dakota Access Pipeline, and others.

ROUTE OF THE MARCH Washington Place (stop in front of Triangle Shirtwaist Factory) [at Greene] Greene Str. to Waverly Place Waverly Place Christopher Street (stop in front of Stonewall) [7th Av. So. on Sheridan Sq.] 7th Avenue Varick Street (stop in front of the Immigration [Jail at W.Houston] and second stop in front of Trump hotel Soho) West Broadway Duane Street (stop at the African burial ground) Elk Street or Lafayette Street Reade Street Broadway Zuccotti Park

On March 8, we're demanding that Senator Chuck Schumer stand up against Wall Street giveaways and stand with the people!

Right now, there's a bill in the Senate that would majorly roll back regulations on big banks while exposing homebuyers to predatory lending. Senator Schumer MUST do everything in his power to stand with us and speak out against this bill.

New Yorkers have as much experience as anyone with both big banks and housing issues, and we have seen first hand the important role strong regulation of the financial sector and housing market can have on keeping our economy strong and raising our standards of living.

New Yorkers expect our Senator to do everything in his power, especially as Minority Leader, to stop Wall St. giveaways and protect ALL of us from predatory banks.

FeaturingThe Hedge ClippersThe Hedge Clippers are working to expose how hedge funds & billionaires influence government & politics in order to expand their wealth, power, & influenceRootstrikersRootstrikers is a new generation of activists standing up against the corrupting link between wealth and power, on Wall Street and in Washington.Strong Economy for All CoalitionWe are made up of some of New York’s most engaged and effective unions and community organizationsCenter for Popular DemocracyBuilding capacity to win a pro-worker, pro-immigrant, racial & economic justice agenda.New York Communities for ChangeUniting Neighborhoods in the Fight for Economic Justice

Angels in America, the Broadway phenomenon that won the Pulitzer Prize, earned multiple Tony Awards, and gave voice to gay culture during the height of the AIDS crisis, celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, writers Isaac Butler and Dan Kois have compiled an enthralling narrative of the play’s beginnings and legacy, featuring the voices of playwright Tony Kushner, actors (such as Meryl Streep and Al Pacino from the HBO adaptation), directors, producers, and others. The authors are joined by actors from the original Broadway run Stephen Spinella, Kathleen Chalfant, and Ellen McLaughlin for a discussion of the book, as well as a spirited reading of related interviews featuring an all-star cast of actors and writers.

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The World Only Spins Forward: Oral History & the Legacy of Angels in AmericaThursday, March 8Doors: 6:00 pmEvent: 6:30 pm$10 General Admission / $5 for Members

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REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement.

FRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism, science, nature, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.

Freedescription https://goo.gl/7ECTFJeventbrite.com/e/black-women-the-war-on-drugs-and-reparations-tickets-43351063197Join Kassandra Frédérique of the Drug Policy Alliance and Andrea J. Ritchie, author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color for an International Women's Day celebration and discussion of:Black Women, the War on Drugs, and Reparations

As the federal administration ramps up the "war on drugs" while local leaders claim marijuana decriminalization while arrests of Black and Brown New Yorkers continue, Black women, girls, trans and gender nonconforming continue to be primary targets of drug policing and punishment on multiple fronts. Join us for a celebration and discussion of Black women's resistance, resilience, and reparations for the harms of the drug war!Kassandra Frédérique is the New York State Director of the Drug Policy Alliance. In addition to working for policy solutions to reduce the harms associated with drug use, Frederique works with communities throughout the state to address and resolve the collateral consequences of the War on Drugs – state violence. As a co-author of Blueprint for a Public Health and Safety Approach to Drug Policy and as technical advisor to Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick’s The Ithaca Plan, Frederique cultivates and mobilizes powerful coalitions in communities devastated by drug misuse and drug criminalization to develop municipal strategies to foster healthier and safer communities.

Andrea J. Ritchie is a Black lesbian immigrant and attorney, and the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color (Beacon Press 2017) and co-author of Say Her Name: Resisting Police Brutality Against Black Women. She is currently Researcher in Residence on Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Criminalization at the Barnard Center for Research on Women.Deborah Peterson Small is executive director and founder of Break the Chains, Communities of Color and the War on Drugs. Previously, she was director of public policy for the Drug Policy Alliance.

The NYC Democratic Socialists of AmericaSocialist Feminist Working Group will host an 8-week-long mixed-gender reading group on reproductive justice. Our intent is to give participants a thorough understanding of debates and contemporary issues surrounding reproductive justice [or freedom] in the hope of connecting our praxis to theory.

The term “reproductive justice” was created by black women activists in 1994. It refers to an understanding of reproductive rights and activism that goes beyond “abortion rights” and the language of “choice” in favor of a holistic understanding of human rights. SisterSong defines the term as “three interconnected human rights values: the right not to have children using safe birth control, abortion, or abstinence; the right to have children under the conditions we choose; and the right to parent the children we have in safe and healthy environments.”

Location: The Nation, 520 8th Avenue, 21st floor (You will need a photo ID to enter the building. If the office is locked try ringing the doorbell but someone should be there to greet you.)

Please feel free to read long with us at home if you can't make it in person! Here is the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/197jWoHgqNT-xR-gmq4DErrCmOxmeyZtv0esBbBCLyJI/edit?usp=sharing

The reproductive justice paradigm takes into account the impact of oppressions such as class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status, all of which influence one's reproductive freedom. We will discuss the eugenics movement, population control, sterilization abuse, the legacy of Margaret Sanger, violence, welfare, LGBTQ rights, and the US healthcare system.

“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven

The writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon, it published Traven’s first novel, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers), of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven's other works his name is Gale, or Gerard Gales), an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Death Ship, and the six volume series we will read this term.

The Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for revolt, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

The Jungle NovelsThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations,

Government (1931)Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.

March to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.

Trozas (1936)Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz's rule.

The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) ISBNThis fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.

A General from the Jungle (1940)Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate, uneducated, and poor, but resourceful and dangerous.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

Household Special Waste Drop-Off Site:
Hunts Point at Farragut Street and the East River, next to the Fulton Fish Market. Enter on Farragut Street, off Food Center Drive.Hours of Operation:10AM - 5PM on the last Friday of each month. Every Saturday, except for the last Saturday of each month
These sites operate on a monitored “do-it-yourself” basis. A DSNY official
will instruct residents to empty their Special Wastes into labeled storage containers. Be sure to dress accordingly — for example, sturdy shoes, casual clothing, and work gloves are recommended. If dropping off lithium or rechargeable batteries there are special handling requirements, see Safety and Packaging Requirements.
Residents are expected to deposit their empty paint cans, corrugated cardboard, and any trash into designated containers for proper recycling or disposal after emptying their Special Waste. ALSO SEE:"take it back nyc" for manufacturer and retailer take-back programs.

Friday, Mar. 9 Commemoration of the life of Indigenous activist Dennis Banks Saturday, Mar. 10 Solidarity walk to the Ramapough Nation Sunday, Mar. 11 Walk will culminate at Indian Point...Peace Walkers will be meeting at the Cortlandt Metro North Train Station on the morning of March 11 for the final leg of the walk. We will have transportation back to the train station for those who would like to stay for the potluck and program.

Subject: Jun-San Yasuda of Grafton Peace Pagoda and Peace WalkersFrom: marilyn elie Date: 2/3/2018 1:01 AMJun san will begin her annual Peace Walk from the Grafton Peace Pagoda culminating in a Peace Crane Ceremony on March 11 at the gates of Indian Point. People are welcome to walk with her for all or any part of the way.

Below is some more information about the earlier part of her trip. Please do pass this on to other interested parties and post to your social networks. Join in if you can.

After the Peace Crane Ceremony at Indian Point there will be a potluck dinner for the Walkers and for those who come to our seventh annual Fukushima Commemoration and Indian Point update. Mark your calendar now! Details to follow. There will also be a program commemorating Fukushima in NYC on March 10.

For our NYC friends: the Peace Walkers will be meeting at the Cortlandt Metro North Train Station on the morning of March 11 for the final leg of the Walk. We will have transportation back to the train station for those who would like to stay for the potluck and program.

Buddhist nun Jun-San with the Grafton Peace Pagoda is planning her annual 11 day walk in March to commemorate the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

On March 7th or 8th, she will be in the White Plains area and is looking for groups and congregations to be supportive of her NO NUKES messaging.

OnMarch 9th there will be a commemoration of the life of Indigenous activist Dennis Banks whom she knew well; on March 10th will be a solidarity walk to the Ramapough Nation and on March 11th, the walk will culminate at Indian Point.

We are not yet sure what the walk or activities will look like for March 7th or 8th. If you or your congregation is interested in hosting, organizing an event around those two days, please do be in touch soonest. We are thinking the Entergy headquarters will be a target again this year. She and her small walking group will also need overnight accommodations.

Warm regards,

Nada

Here is more info about Jun-san:

In 1978, Native Americans organized “The Longest Walk”, wherein participants walked cross-country from San Francisco, California to Washington, DC. Accompanying them on their walk was a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Since then, Jun Yasuda has crossed the country four more times on foot and logged in several thousand additional miles for the cause of peace. She walks beating her drum while chanting a prayer for peace Na-Mu-Myo-Ho-Ren-Ge-Kyo. Many times, she has spent days fasting on the steps of the NY State Capitol in Albany for support of freedom for a Native American activist Dennis Banks. In 1983, during one of her fasts, she was approached by Hank Hazelton, a long time activist for Native Americans. Hank had heard of her work and offered her a parcel of land in Grafton, New York, for the purpose of building a “Monument for Peace”. In October 1985, work began on the structure soon to be called the Grafton Peace Pagoda. After 8 years of toil and struggle, the Pagoda was completed and dedicated in the fall of 1993. Since the Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji order is not permitted to solicit money for any reason, the Pagoda was built entirely with donated labor, funds and materials. Many volunteers contributed tens of thousands of hours of labor to complete the Pagoda. Recycled materials and tools also found new life during construction of the project. Over the course of time, visitors from many nations and all walks of life began to arrive at the site. Representatives of many faiths; Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, Bahai’s, Sufis, Buddhists, Spiritualists and Agnostics have all been drawn to this special place. Peace Pagodas are a symbol of non-violence dating as far back as 2000 years ago. During that time, the Emperor Ashoka of India, a notoriously bloody warlord, was approaching after a particularly wretched battle by a Buddhist Monk who admonished him for his wrong doings. From that time on, Ashoka became a became a fervent believer in Buddhism. After his conversion, he gave up his warlike ways and began erecting Peace Pagodas. In 1931, Nichidatsu Fujii, teacher of the Nipponzan Myohoji order, met Mahatma Gandhi in India. They became friends, and together joined in sending out prayers for peace and non-violence throughout the world even as the clouds of World War II began to grow on the horizon. “Civilization is not to kill human beings, Not to destroy things, not to make war; Civilization is to hold mutual affection And to respect one another.” –Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii

Many people ask the question, “what is inside the Peace Pagoda?” The answer is, “nothing but empty space.” Since the first Pagodas were built by the piling of stones on mud, their interiors were solid with no space inside. Although the modern construction techniques used to build the Grafton Peace Pagoda have created an interior space, this area is purposely left unused. All activities take place outside the Pagoda, which is also known as a Stupa. As of 2000, eighty Peace Pagodas had been built around the world in Europe, Asia, and the United States. There is only one other Peace Pagoda in operation in the USA, located in Leverett, MA (just north of Amherst). A third US Peace Pagoda is now under construction in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern Tennessee. -- Nada Khader WESPAC Foundation Director www.wespac.org 914 449-6514 Facebook: Explore WESPAC Twitter: @WESPAC_NY

Join us on March 9 as we picket Governor Cuomo at his Tuesday press conference near Washington Square Park, where he'll be making an announcement about protecting our ocean resources.

Help us remind Cuomo that, if he truly is serious about protecting our waters and climate, he must stop the proposed Williams NESE Pipeline, slated to carry fracked gas for 23 miles beneath New York Harbor. CUOMO, WALK THE TALK!

For more information about the proposed pipeline, visit https://www.facebook.com/StoptheWilliamsPipeline/

For more information about the event, or to RSVP, contact Laura Shindell lshindell@fwwatch.org ; 203-522-2130

Sane Energy Project — Please note we were just notified this event is postponed to Friday, March 9th at 9:15am. Join us at 8:45am!

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

Friday, 3/9/18 is the five year anniversary of the murder of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, who was shot seven times by NYPD Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova. Several of these shots entered Kimani's back as he lay on the ground.

Sat. 3/10/18 should have been Delrawn Small's birthday. However, 7/4/16, Delrawn was murdered by off-duty NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs, who shot him three times from inside Isaacs' car.

Please come out to these two events to support the families of Kimani Gray and Delrawn Small!

. Memorial Service for Kimani GrayWhen: Friday, Mar. 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 pmWhere: Byways and Hedges Youth for Christ Ministry @323 East 53rd St. btwn Church and Snyder Aves in Brooklyn. (Q or F to Church Ave and catch the B35 to Church/E 52nd; 4 Utica/Crown Heights and catch the B46 to Utica/Church)

Audre Lorde, the highly influential, award winning African- American lesbian poet was the catalyst who ignited the Afro-German movement, while challenging white women to constructively use their white privileges. The film offers stunning and endearing images of the private Audre Lorde. With testimony of colleagues and friends it is a lively document of Lorde’s lasting legacy in Germany and beyond.Filmmaker Dagmar Schultz, co-author of script and protagonist Ika Hügel-Marshall will be present for discussion.

Audre Lorde, (1934 - 1992) African American, lesbian, author, poet and activist is an icon in the African-American and lesbian feminist movements in the U.S.

An untold chapter of her life are the years in which she catalyzed the first movement of Black Germans to claim their identity as Afro-Germans with pride. As she was inspiring Afro-Germans she was also encouraging the White German feminist movement to take a hard look at their own racism.

Many hours of video and audio clips were recorded while Audre taught, spoke and met formally and informally in a wide variety of venues. In addition to the historic significance of this never before seen footage, it also portrays Audre "offstage" enjoying the Berlin scene.

The film also explores Audre's battle with terminal cancer. In Berlin, the city which became a third home for her, she discovered naturopathic treatments which prolonged her life eight years longer than the six month prognosis from her American doctors.

There will also be some powerful speakers:- Ashley Dawson, Visiting Professor at Princeton and author of Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change- Dan Sherrell, Campaign Coordinator of NY Renews- Betamia Coronel, U.S. National Organizer, 350.org- Maritza Silva-Farrell, Executive Director, Alliance for a Greater New York (ALIGN)

In January, Mayor Bill de Blasio boldly announced that NYC will divest all public pension funds from fossil fuel investments and will also sue the five biggest fossil fuel companies for the damage they’re willfully done to our island city. This announcement is a huge victory for the climate justice movement, but what are the next steps?

How can we secure the funding necessary to ensure a transition to renewable energy of the speed and scale that science tells us we need? And how can we ensure that this transition is just, and leaves no communities and workers behind? Join us for a discussion of the steps we need to take to win a sustainable future in New York and around the world.

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

Both Manhattan DA Cy Vance and Brooklyn DA Eric Gonzalez were elected this year on seemingly progressive platforms, specifically around bail, immigration, and declining to prosecute broken windows offenses. We voted for our District Attorneys, they promised reform, and now we are building a community-driven movement to hold them accountable.

We’re looking for volunteers to join us in building this accountability movement! By joining Court Watch NYC, you will be the eyes and ears of accountability in New York City courtrooms, collecting real-time data and the narratives of what’s actually happening in the courtrooms.

If you are interested in joining the Court Watch NYC community, please register here to attend our upcoming training on Saturday, March 10 where you can get to know other Court Watch members and learn what you need to know to start demanding accountability through court watching!

**Attending a training is mandatory for anyone who wants to volunteer to monitor court shifts, however it is not mandatory for volunteering to help with data entry. If you are interested in data support, email us at info@courtwatchnyc.org.**

Court Watch NYC is a collaborative project with Voices Of Community Activists & Leaders (VOCAL-NY), the Brooklyn Community Bail Fund, and 5 Boro Defenders. Our mission is to build a community movement to hold New York City prosecutors accountable to their promises to reduce inequality and unnecessary incarceration in our city’s criminal legal system.Website: courtwatchnyc.orgTwitter: @CourtWatchNYC

Rise Up for International Women's Day in East Harlem!Saturday Mar. 10, 1:00 p.m. from E. 116th St. & Lexington Ave.; #6 Train to 116 St. (at Lex.); 2, 3 to 116 St. (at Malcolm X Blvd./Lenox Av.);C Train or Weekend A Local (ask!) to 116 St. (at Frederick Douglass Blvd.);116 St. cross town bus; trip planners: https://goo.gl/a92Gd1 http://mta.info transit cuts: http://mta.info/weekender description: https://facebook.com/events/186349165464010/<nyc@pslweb.org> Public · Hosted by Justice Center en El Barrio and Party for Socialism and Liberation - PSL

Women and oppressed people rise up in East Harlem!Celebrate International Women’s Day in Struggle!International Women’s Day originated more than 100 years ago as a day to celebrate the political, economic and social gains of women won through struggle. Across the world, people gather to celebrate the women’s struggle but also to rally against the oppression of women and for full equality.

This year’s Women March brought out working-women of all backgrounds demanding an end to violence against women, protection for the DREAMers, LGBTQ rights, as well as ending racism. The organizers focused this energy on electing the Democrats in the 2018 elections. We cannot put hopes on the Democratic party to be the party of resistance. Fueled by the midterm elections, they chant “today we march, tomorrow we vote” only to fall short on their promises and betray the same people who elected them.

Working-class women have always been at the forefront of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist movements and leaders in political movements demanding indigenous rights and environmental justice, from Honduras to Palestine, for the protection of immigrants and defense of our communities locally, and in Black liberation struggles throughout history.

When we stand up, organize, and fight back, we can win. We can, and we must say “No More!” We must continue fighting to keep the gains we have made and mobilizing to demand full equality for all. This is the way we honor International Women’s Day: as a celebration of struggle and a day to look ahead towards continuing to build the struggle for women’s equality and equality for all. The women united will never be defeated!

Meet us at 116th and Lexington Ave to march. Join us in the streets to bring the militancy of IWD to our neighborhoods!

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Hear on the ground reports from the strike, discuss how to build solidarity and what lessons we can learn from this struggle. Bring a co-worker, friend or classmate and let's spread the word wide!

This event will be live-streamed at facebook.com/jacobinmag beginning at 6:50pm Eastern.

Please arrive early! Due to overwhelming interest in this event, we will have to open seating on a first come, first served basis. We have procured two extra rooms in the building for overflow.

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Over 30,000 West Virginia teachers and school personnel remain on strike. While union leaders and Governor Justice announced a deal on Tuesday night, rank-and-file teachers have insisted that the core issues, most notably rising healthcare costs, remain unresolved. After meetings and discussions across the state, all 55 counties remain out. Meanwhile, the state legislature has tabled legislation to resolve the strike into next week. Solidarity across West Virginia has been immense: teachers have made sure that students who rely on free meals at school are fed and families have turned up in support of their teachers. Thousands of defiant workers remain in the Capitol building to press for their demands.

But a near blackout by mainstream media means that we need to build solidarity with the strikers beyond West Virginia. In a moment when Janus threatens to break the back of the unions, the rank-and-file workers of West Virginia are showing another way forward. #55united #solidarityforever

Donate to the strike fund set up by local activists, please visit here: https://www.gofundme.com/wv-teachers-strike-fund

Sponsored by International Socialist Organization, Jacobin Magazine, Labor Notes, the NYC-DSA Labor Branch, and the MORE caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.

Endorsed by Labor for Palestine and Labor for Standing Rock.

Jacobin Magazine — Not in NYC this weekend? Watch and listen to WV strikers from wherever you are: this event will be live-streamed at facebook.com/jacobinmag.

Jacobin Magazine — Due to overwhelming interest in this event, we will have to open seating on a first come, first served basis. We have procured two extra rooms in the ...

FeaturingNYC Democratic Socialists of AmericaNYC chapter of the largest socialist organization in the country. We fight, and organize, for more democracy in more places with activism and education.Student-Worker SolidarityWe fight for economic justice at CU and beyond. In 2016, we ran a successful campaign for a $15/h min wage. Meetings on Wednesdays at 8:30pm in Diana Ll2!International Socialist Organization (NYC)We are the New York City district of the International Socialist Organization.MORE UFTWe encourage all NYC educators to join us in challenging the UFT leadership and leading the fight for the public schools we all deserve!Jacobin MagazineJacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.Labor Notes"Putting the movement back in the labor movement" http://www.labornotes.org

Subject: [JusticeCommittee] Friday and Sat: Join JC to support the families of Kimani Gray and Delrawn SmallFrom: "Justice Committee justicecommittee@gmail.com [JusticeCommittee]" Date: 3/6/2018 11:06 PMPlease join us in supporting two important events organized by families who've lost loved ones to the police {snip}. [original e-mail msg. avail. upon request -t.]

Friday, 3/9/18 is the five year anniversary of the murder of 16-year-old Kimani Gray, who was shot seven times by NYPD Sergeant Mourad Mourad and Officer Jovaniel Cordova. Several of these shots entered Kimani's back as he lay on the ground.

Sat. 3/10/18 should have been Delrawn Small's birthday. However, 7/4/16, Delrawn was murdered by off-duty NYPD Officer Wayne Isaacs, who shot him three times from inside Isaacs' car.

Please come out to these two events to support the families of Kimani Gray and Delrawn Small!

. Memorial Service for Kimani GrayWhen: Friday, Mar. 9 from 6:00 to 8:00 pmWhere: Byways and Hedges Youth for Christ Ministry @323 East 53rd St. btwn Church and Snyder Aves in Brooklyn. (Q or F to Church Ave and catch the B35 to Church/E 52nd; 4 Utica/Crown Heights and catch the B46 to Utica/Church)

Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!December 20 , 2017 CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film “Food Chains”.Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy’s buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold “Freedom Fast”!Fast will take place during week of March 11-15 outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz…

“This is just a faster death.”

With those words — and exactly twenty years ago today — six courageous farmworkers launched a month-long hunger strike in Immokalee, demanding nothing more than dialogue with tomato industry leaders about the unconscionable poverty and human rights abuses in Florida’s fields. Workers at the time faced everything from forced labor to widespread sexual harassment and assault, not to mention daily humiliations in the form of systemic wage theft, violence and verbal harassment at the hands of their bosses, and dangerous working conditions. For the hunger strikers, the unremitting predations of their bosses in the fields far outweighed any possible physical consequences from the strike.

A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon captured the growers’ intransigence during the workers’ hunger strike twenty years ago. Despite the growers’ refusal to meet the strikers’ demand and join workers in dialogue over working conditions, the CIW and tomato industry leaders today work in partnership in what is widely viewed as the most successful social responsibility program in US agriculture.

Though the growers refused to talk with the workers at the time, twenty years later conditions in Florida’s tomato fields have indeed undergone an unprecedented transformation and become the gold standard in the US produce industry. Through tireless protests and consumer education, and the day-to-day hard work of educating workers, investigating and resolving complaints, and auditing for compliance with the unique Fair Food Code of Conduct, the CIW has radically improved the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in Florida’s fields.

The hunger strikers’ extraordinary sacrifice laid the foundation for the groundbreaking Campaign for Fair Food two years later and the success of the Fair Food Program that was to come. Real, profound change was not only necessary and just, it was in fact possible. Meanwhile, in Mexico…

Workers on a Mexican produce farm wash their clothes during a day off in a nearby irrigation ditch. Photo LA Times.

The following are just a few of the headlines out of Mexico’s produce industry since 2011, when the CIW launched the Fair Food Program in partnership with Florida’s tomato industry:

And those cases, beyond any reasonable doubt, are but the tip of the iceberg of farmworker exploitation in Mexico over the past several years. Widespread violence, fear, and corruption ensure impunity for those who abuse and exploit farmworkers in Mexico, and only the rarest of cases ever slips through the shroud of silence to burst forth in the headlines. Sexual violence against women farmworkers — a topic that is effectively taboo in the press — is no exception to that rule.

Despite Mexico’s woeful human rights record, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers and shifted its purchases to Mexico after Florida growers implemented the Fair Food Program. In light of that decision and the ongoing human rights crisis in Mexico’s fields, it is time, finally, to ask some hard questions of Wendy’s:

How many of the cases revealed in the headlines above occurred in Wendy’s supply chain? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes picked in Mexico since the fast-food giant left Florida in response to the Fair Food Program were picked by slaves? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes are now picked by women who have been sexually assaulted by their bosses in the fields?

Unfortunately, answers to these questions are effectively impossible to come by. While we do know that Wendy’s purchased tomatoes from a grower implicated in one of the cases above (“Trump’s Tomatoes,” Harpers, March 2016), the near total lack of transparency in the company’s supply chain makes connecting its purchases to particular abuses effectively impossible. The consequences of Wendy’s thickly veiled supply chain are surely not unintentional, but Wendy’s has shown no willingness to shed light on its supplier network, and workers and consumers alike have grown tired of waiting.Freedom Fast!

To protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry, and to demand that Wendy’s support verifiable freedom from those abuses in its supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program, farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies are announcing the 5-day Freedom Fast to take place this March 11-15 in New York City outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz.

Students at Ohio State University held a week-long fast outside the University’s administration building last spring calling on OSU to boot Wendy’s from campus unless the fast-food giant agreed to join the Fair Food Program. Their fast sparked student fasts on dozens of campuses around the country.

The upcoming Freedom Fast follows on a long tradition of workers and allies putting their bodies on the line to press for justice. The 30-day Hunger Strike in 1997-1998 was the first, and the longest, of such actions by CIW members, but the 10-day Taco Bell fast in 2003, the week-long Fast for Fair Food outside Publix (pictured at the top of this post) in 2012, and the two recent rolling fasts by students (pictured above) and faith leaders all are part of a rich history of CIW fasts for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights (not

. Jun san Yasuda is walking from Grafton Peace Pagoda with other Peace Walkers... planning a Peace Crane Ceremony at the gates of Indian Point...pot luck to feed them after them afterwards. [Ask time, location, contacts; confirm date. -t.]

Friday, Mar. 9 Commemoration of the life of Indigenous activist Dennis Banks Saturday, Mar. 10 Solidarity walk to the Ramapough Nation Sunday, Mar. 11 Walk will culminate at Indian Point...Peace Walkers will be meeting at the Cortlandt Metro North Train Station on the morning of March 11 for the final leg of the walk. We will have transportation back to the train station for those who would like to stay for the potluck and program.

Subject: Jun-San Yasuda of Grafton Peace Pagoda and Peace WalkersFrom: marilyn elie Date: 2/3/2018 1:01 AMJun san will begin her annual Peace Walk from the Grafton Peace Pagoda culminating in a Peace Crane Ceremony on March 11 at the gates of Indian Point. People are welcome to walk with her for all or any part of the way.

Below is some more information about the earlier part of her trip. Please do pass this on to other interested parties and post to your social networks. Join in if you can.

After the Peace Crane Ceremony at Indian Point there will be a potluck dinner for the Walkers and for those who come to our seventh annual Fukushima Commemoration and Indian Point update. Mark your calendar now! Details to follow. There will also be a program commemorating Fukushima in NYC on March 10.

For our NYC friends: the Peace Walkers will be meeting at the Cortlandt Metro North Train Station on the morning of March 11 for the final leg of the Walk. We will have transportation back to the train station for those who would like to stay for the potluck and program.

Buddhist nun Jun-San with the Grafton Peace Pagoda is planning her annual 11 day walk in March to commemorate the 2011 Fukushima disaster.

On March 7th or 8th, she will be in the White Plains area and is looking for groups and congregations to be supportive of her NO NUKES messaging.

OnMarch 9th there will be a commemoration of the life of Indigenous activist Dennis Banks whom she knew well; on March 10th will be a solidarity walk to the Ramapough Nation and on March 11th, the walk will culminate at Indian Point.

We are not yet sure what the walk or activities will look like for March 7th or 8th. If you or your congregation is interested in hosting, organizing an event around those two days, please do be in touch soonest. We are thinking the Entergy headquarters will be a target again this year. She and her small walking group will also need overnight accommodations.

Warm regards,

Nada

Here is more info about Jun-san:

In 1978, Native Americans organized “The Longest Walk”, wherein participants walked cross-country from San Francisco, California to Washington, DC. Accompanying them on their walk was a Japanese Buddhist Nun from the Nipponzan Myohoji order. Since then, Jun Yasuda has crossed the country four more times on foot and logged in several thousand additional miles for the cause of peace. She walks beating her drum while chanting a prayer for peace Na-Mu-Myo-Ho-Ren-Ge-Kyo. Many times, she has spent days fasting on the steps of the NY State Capitol in Albany for support of freedom for a Native American activist Dennis Banks. In 1983, during one of her fasts, she was approached by Hank Hazelton, a long time activist for Native Americans. Hank had heard of her work and offered her a parcel of land in Grafton, New York, for the purpose of building a “Monument for Peace”. In October 1985, work began on the structure soon to be called the Grafton Peace Pagoda. After 8 years of toil and struggle, the Pagoda was completed and dedicated in the fall of 1993. Since the Japanese Nipponzan Myohoji order is not permitted to solicit money for any reason, the Pagoda was built entirely with donated labor, funds and materials. Many volunteers contributed tens of thousands of hours of labor to complete the Pagoda. Recycled materials and tools also found new life during construction of the project. Over the course of time, visitors from many nations and all walks of life began to arrive at the site. Representatives of many faiths; Christians, Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Native Americans, Bahai’s, Sufis, Buddhists, Spiritualists and Agnostics have all been drawn to this special place. Peace Pagodas are a symbol of non-violence dating as far back as 2000 years ago. During that time, the Emperor Ashoka of India, a notoriously bloody warlord, was approaching after a particularly wretched battle by a Buddhist Monk who admonished him for his wrong doings. From that time on, Ashoka became a became a fervent believer in Buddhism. After his conversion, he gave up his warlike ways and began erecting Peace Pagodas. In 1931, Nichidatsu Fujii, teacher of the Nipponzan Myohoji order, met Mahatma Gandhi in India. They became friends, and together joined in sending out prayers for peace and non-violence throughout the world even as the clouds of World War II began to grow on the horizon. “Civilization is not to kill human beings, Not to destroy things, not to make war; Civilization is to hold mutual affection And to respect one another.” –Most Venerable Nichidatsu Fujii

Many people ask the question, “what is inside the Peace Pagoda?” The answer is, “nothing but empty space.” Since the first Pagodas were built by the piling of stones on mud, their interiors were solid with no space inside. Although the modern construction techniques used to build the Grafton Peace Pagoda have created an interior space, this area is purposely left unused. All activities take place outside the Pagoda, which is also known as a Stupa. As of 2000, eighty Peace Pagodas had been built around the world in Europe, Asia, and the United States. There is only one other Peace Pagoda in operation in the USA, located in Leverett, MA (just north of Amherst). A third US Peace Pagoda is now under construction in the Great Smoky Mountains of Eastern Tennessee. -- Nada Khader WESPAC Foundation Director www.wespac.org 914 449-6514 Facebook: Explore WESPAC Twitter: @WESPAC_NY

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

Liberation School: The Russian Revolution100 years ago, the victory of the Bolsheviks marked the first time in human history where workers and peasants took and held power in society. This was the first time a country was not governed to protect a tiny elite of oppressors, but instead the broad masses of people.

There are many lessons to be learned from the Russian Revolution in 1917 and the society it created.

How did the people of Russia achieve such a victory given the conditions it was faced with? How did the Bolsheviks win broad support, and what were the successes and failures endured along the way? How did they handle key questions of society after taking power such as nationalities, gender, war, etc.? And most importantly, what can we learn from the last 100 years as we continue the fight for liberation here in the US?

Join @NycSocfem for our general meeting on Sunday at 2pm. We'll be debriefing the International Women's Strike and discussing our 2018 push for the New York Health Act. https://buff.ly/2HjzuMj https://twitter.com/nycDSA/status/972569790433906688

Come hang out with the NYC DSA Socialist Feminists! We'll be debriefing the International Women's Strike and discussing our 2018 push for the New York Health Act. Get in contact with us!

Hear on the ground reports from the strike, discuss how to build solidarity and what lessons we can learn from this struggle. Bring a co-worker, friend or classmate and let's spread the word wide!

This event will be live-streamed at facebook.com/jacobinmag beginning at 6:50pm Eastern.

Please arrive early! Due to overwhelming interest in this event, we will have to open seating on a first come, first served basis. We have procured two extra rooms in the building for overflow.

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Over 30,000 West Virginia teachers and school personnel remain on strike. While union leaders and Governor Justice announced a deal on Tuesday night, rank-and-file teachers have insisted that the core issues, most notably rising healthcare costs, remain unresolved. After meetings and discussions across the state, all 55 counties remain out. Meanwhile, the state legislature has tabled legislation to resolve the strike into next week. Solidarity across West Virginia has been immense: teachers have made sure that students who rely on free meals at school are fed and families have turned up in support of their teachers. Thousands of defiant workers remain in the Capitol building to press for their demands.

But a near blackout by mainstream media means that we need to build solidarity with the strikers beyond West Virginia. In a moment when Janus threatens to break the back of the unions, the rank-and-file workers of West Virginia are showing another way forward. #55united #solidarityforever

Donate to the strike fund set up by local activists, please visit here: https://www.gofundme.com/wv-teachers-strike-fund

Sponsored by International Socialist Organization, Jacobin Magazine, Labor Notes, the NYC-DSA Labor Branch, and the MORE caucus of the United Federation of Teachers.

Endorsed by Labor for Palestine and Labor for Standing Rock.

Jacobin Magazine — Not in NYC this weekend? Watch and listen to WV strikers from wherever you are: this event will be live-streamed at facebook.com/jacobinmag.

Jacobin Magazine — Due to overwhelming interest in this event, we will have to open seating on a first come, first served basis. We have procured two extra rooms in the ...

FeaturingNYC Democratic Socialists of AmericaNYC chapter of the largest socialist organization in the country. We fight, and organize, for more democracy in more places with activism and education.Student-Worker SolidarityWe fight for economic justice at CU and beyond. In 2016, we ran a successful campaign for a $15/h min wage. Meetings on Wednesdays at 8:30pm in Diana Ll2!International Socialist Organization (NYC)We are the New York City district of the International Socialist Organization.MORE UFTWe encourage all NYC educators to join us in challenging the UFT leadership and leading the fight for the public schools we all deserve!Jacobin MagazineJacobin is a leading voice of the American left, offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture.Labor Notes"Putting the movement back in the labor movement" http://www.labornotes.org

Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!December 20 , 2017 CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film “Food Chains”.Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy’s buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold “Freedom Fast”!Fast will take place during week of March 11-15 outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz…

“This is just a faster death.”

With those words — and exactly twenty years ago today — six courageous farmworkers launched a month-long hunger strike in Immokalee, demanding nothing more than dialogue with tomato industry leaders about the unconscionable poverty and human rights abuses in Florida’s fields. Workers at the time faced everything from forced labor to widespread sexual harassment and assault, not to mention daily humiliations in the form of systemic wage theft, violence and verbal harassment at the hands of their bosses, and dangerous working conditions. For the hunger strikers, the unremitting predations of their bosses in the fields far outweighed any possible physical consequences from the strike.

A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon captured the growers’ intransigence during the workers’ hunger strike twenty years ago. Despite the growers’ refusal to meet the strikers’ demand and join workers in dialogue over working conditions, the CIW and tomato industry leaders today work in partnership in what is widely viewed as the most successful social responsibility program in US agriculture.

Though the growers refused to talk with the workers at the time, twenty years later conditions in Florida’s tomato fields have indeed undergone an unprecedented transformation and become the gold standard in the US produce industry. Through tireless protests and consumer education, and the day-to-day hard work of educating workers, investigating and resolving complaints, and auditing for compliance with the unique Fair Food Code of Conduct, the CIW has radically improved the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in Florida’s fields.

The hunger strikers’ extraordinary sacrifice laid the foundation for the groundbreaking Campaign for Fair Food two years later and the success of the Fair Food Program that was to come. Real, profound change was not only necessary and just, it was in fact possible. Meanwhile, in Mexico…

Workers on a Mexican produce farm wash their clothes during a day off in a nearby irrigation ditch. Photo LA Times.

The following are just a few of the headlines out of Mexico’s produce industry since 2011, when the CIW launched the Fair Food Program in partnership with Florida’s tomato industry:

And those cases, beyond any reasonable doubt, are but the tip of the iceberg of farmworker exploitation in Mexico over the past several years. Widespread violence, fear, and corruption ensure impunity for those who abuse and exploit farmworkers in Mexico, and only the rarest of cases ever slips through the shroud of silence to burst forth in the headlines. Sexual violence against women farmworkers — a topic that is effectively taboo in the press — is no exception to that rule.

Despite Mexico’s woeful human rights record, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers and shifted its purchases to Mexico after Florida growers implemented the Fair Food Program. In light of that decision and the ongoing human rights crisis in Mexico’s fields, it is time, finally, to ask some hard questions of Wendy’s:

How many of the cases revealed in the headlines above occurred in Wendy’s supply chain? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes picked in Mexico since the fast-food giant left Florida in response to the Fair Food Program were picked by slaves? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes are now picked by women who have been sexually assaulted by their bosses in the fields?

Unfortunately, answers to these questions are effectively impossible to come by. While we do know that Wendy’s purchased tomatoes from a grower implicated in one of the cases above (“Trump’s Tomatoes,” Harpers, March 2016), the near total lack of transparency in the company’s supply chain makes connecting its purchases to particular abuses effectively impossible. The consequences of Wendy’s thickly veiled supply chain are surely not unintentional, but Wendy’s has shown no willingness to shed light on its supplier network, and workers and consumers alike have grown tired of waiting.Freedom Fast!

To protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry, and to demand that Wendy’s support verifiable freedom from those abuses in its supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program, farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies are announcing the 5-day Freedom Fast to take place this March 11-15 in New York City outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz.

Students at Ohio State University held a week-long fast outside the University’s administration building last spring calling on OSU to boot Wendy’s from campus unless the fast-food giant agreed to join the Fair Food Program. Their fast sparked student fasts on dozens of campuses around the country.

The upcoming Freedom Fast follows on a long tradition of workers and allies putting their bodies on the line to press for justice. The 30-day Hunger Strike in 1997-1998 was the first, and the longest, of such actions by CIW members, but the 10-day Taco Bell fast in 2003, the week-long Fast for Fair Food outside Publix (pictured at the top of this post) in 2012, and the two recent rolling fasts by students (pictured above) and faith leaders all are part of a rich history of CIW fasts for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights (not

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

We DEMAND a fully-funded CUNY. We REJECT threats against student democracy, proposed changes to student activity fees, and fee hikes for master's students. We support our Faculty and Staff unions, including the Professional Staff Congress' demand for $7k/course minimum pay for adjunct professors. We call for repair of our broken and crumbling facilities.

Doctoral Students' Council, CUNYhttps://facebook.com/cunydsc/ (212) 817-7888The Doctoral Students' Council is the sole policy making body representing students in doctoral and master's programs at the CUNY Graduate School. Visit our official website at http://cunydsc.org

After a driver ran a red light and killed two children in Brooklyn, people from across New York City are planning a protest march for safe streets. All are welcome! Please join us. Bring flowers, and your friends or family. We will embark on a child-led march down 9th Street to the site of the crash. ... See More

Transportation Alternatives — Make Brooklyn Safer and All Saints' Episcopal Church have signed on as NYC Kids March for Safe Streets co-sponsors. Thank you for your support.Park Slope NeighborsPark Slope Street Safety PartnershipA group of community organizations working together with local elected officials to improve street safety in Park Slope, Brooklyn and beyond.Families For Safe StreetsAs families who have experienced the tragic loss of a loved one to reckless traffic in NYC we demand a rapid implementation of Vision Zero in NYC.Park Slope ParentsYour resource for raising kids (and parents) in Brooklyn, NYMake Brooklyn SaferBrooklyn Community and Residents joining together to make our streets safer for pedestrians, bicyclist, mass transit users and drivers.Transportation AlternativesWith 150,000 New Yorkers, fighting for #BikeNYC #VisionZeroNYC!Join us www.transalt.orgEric AdamsEric L. Adams was elected the 18th Borough President of Brooklyn in November 2013. He previously served as New York State Senator for the 20th District.

Comics have performed on Comedy Central, MTV, FX, and The Late Show With Stephen Colbert and include: Lenny Marcus Matthew Broussard Emmy Blotnick Matteo Lan eand more to be announced! Generously sponsored by Brown Harris Stevens. Thank you to the comedians and the Village Underground.Presented by the GVSHP Brokers PartnershipThe GVSHP Brokers Partnership, comprised of downtown residential real estate brokers and professionals in the field of real estate, was founded in 2006 to help promote understanding about historic preservation, raise awareness of GVSHP's contribution to the Village, and develop membership of the GVSHP.The Brokers Partnership informs the NYC broker community about the Greenwich Village Society’s preservation work by hosting events and offering a popular

Celebrate revolutionary, multiracial feminism at this dinner commemorating International Women’s Day, established by socialist women in 1910.Come join the table for a spaghetti dinner and an open discussion of what revolutionary feminism means to you.

Yesterday, we showed the world the importance of women in a coordinated day of action. This Monday, come celebrate International Women’s Day with us over a spaghetti dinner, with vegan and paleo options, at Freedom Hall.

We’ll have a discussion of "What Revolutionary Feminism Means to Me,” which will be kicked off by the Brooklyn "Revolution She Wrote" discussion circle participants, then opened to everyone. Come share a meal and your thoughts! All are welcome.

Monday, March 12
Spaghetti dinner served at 7PM, donation $10
RSVP on Facebook

Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, and Edgar Snow, Red Star over China.

“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, 1938

THE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.

Planned Parenthood 2018 Day of Action Registration
Join us in Albany for our New York State lobby day for Planned Parenthood. YOU make the difference! Meet with your state representatives and rally for reproductive health, rights and justice!*

Will you join Planned Parenthood Empire State Acts in Albany for our Day of Action on Tuesday, March 13, 2018?
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Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!December 20 , 2017 CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film “Food Chains”.Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy’s buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold “Freedom Fast”!Fast will take place during week of March 11-15 outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz…

“This is just a faster death.”

With those words — and exactly twenty years ago today — six courageous farmworkers launched a month-long hunger strike in Immokalee, demanding nothing more than dialogue with tomato industry leaders about the unconscionable poverty and human rights abuses in Florida’s fields. Workers at the time faced everything from forced labor to widespread sexual harassment and assault, not to mention daily humiliations in the form of systemic wage theft, violence and verbal harassment at the hands of their bosses, and dangerous working conditions. For the hunger strikers, the unremitting predations of their bosses in the fields far outweighed any possible physical consequences from the strike.

A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon captured the growers’ intransigence during the workers’ hunger strike twenty years ago. Despite the growers’ refusal to meet the strikers’ demand and join workers in dialogue over working conditions, the CIW and tomato industry leaders today work in partnership in what is widely viewed as the most successful social responsibility program in US agriculture.

Though the growers refused to talk with the workers at the time, twenty years later conditions in Florida’s tomato fields have indeed undergone an unprecedented transformation and become the gold standard in the US produce industry. Through tireless protests and consumer education, and the day-to-day hard work of educating workers, investigating and resolving complaints, and auditing for compliance with the unique Fair Food Code of Conduct, the CIW has radically improved the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in Florida’s fields.

The hunger strikers’ extraordinary sacrifice laid the foundation for the groundbreaking Campaign for Fair Food two years later and the success of the Fair Food Program that was to come. Real, profound change was not only necessary and just, it was in fact possible. Meanwhile, in Mexico…

Workers on a Mexican produce farm wash their clothes during a day off in a nearby irrigation ditch. Photo LA Times.

The following are just a few of the headlines out of Mexico’s produce industry since 2011, when the CIW launched the Fair Food Program in partnership with Florida’s tomato industry:

And those cases, beyond any reasonable doubt, are but the tip of the iceberg of farmworker exploitation in Mexico over the past several years. Widespread violence, fear, and corruption ensure impunity for those who abuse and exploit farmworkers in Mexico, and only the rarest of cases ever slips through the shroud of silence to burst forth in the headlines. Sexual violence against women farmworkers — a topic that is effectively taboo in the press — is no exception to that rule.

Despite Mexico’s woeful human rights record, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers and shifted its purchases to Mexico after Florida growers implemented the Fair Food Program. In light of that decision and the ongoing human rights crisis in Mexico’s fields, it is time, finally, to ask some hard questions of Wendy’s:

How many of the cases revealed in the headlines above occurred in Wendy’s supply chain? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes picked in Mexico since the fast-food giant left Florida in response to the Fair Food Program were picked by slaves? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes are now picked by women who have been sexually assaulted by their bosses in the fields?

Unfortunately, answers to these questions are effectively impossible to come by. While we do know that Wendy’s purchased tomatoes from a grower implicated in one of the cases above (“Trump’s Tomatoes,” Harpers, March 2016), the near total lack of transparency in the company’s supply chain makes connecting its purchases to particular abuses effectively impossible. The consequences of Wendy’s thickly veiled supply chain are surely not unintentional, but Wendy’s has shown no willingness to shed light on its supplier network, and workers and consumers alike have grown tired of waiting.Freedom Fast!

To protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry, and to demand that Wendy’s support verifiable freedom from those abuses in its supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program, farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies are announcing the 5-day Freedom Fast to take place this March 11-15 in New York City outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz.

Students at Ohio State University held a week-long fast outside the University’s administration building last spring calling on OSU to boot Wendy’s from campus unless the fast-food giant agreed to join the Fair Food Program. Their fast sparked student fasts on dozens of campuses around the country.

The upcoming Freedom Fast follows on a long tradition of workers and allies putting their bodies on the line to press for justice. The 30-day Hunger Strike in 1997-1998 was the first, and the longest, of such actions by CIW members, but the 10-day Taco Bell fast in 2003, the week-long Fast for Fair Food outside Publix (pictured at the top of this post) in 2012, and the two recent rolling fasts by students (pictured above) and faith leaders all are part of a rich history of CIW fasts for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights (not

The goal of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) is sweeping reform of New York’s use of solitary confinement and other forms of extreme isolation in state prisons and local jails. Currently, we are working toward passage of the Humane Alternative to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act in the New York State Legislature.

Isolated confinement involves confining people for 22 to 24 hours a day, without meaningful human contact, programming, or therapy, in cells smaller than the average parking space. This practice is ineffective, unsafe, and inhumane. It causes people detained in these conditions to deteriorate psychologically, physically, and also harms their families and communities.

Despite these facts, New York utilizes isolated confinement at rates well above the national average, with some 4,000 people in isolation in state prisons, and hundreds more in local jails. Although the UN has said that solitary confinement beyond 14 days can amount to torture, many individuals in New York remain in isolation for months, years, or even decades.

. Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated ConfinementAdvocacy Day 2018 March 13 2018 Albany Registration https://goo.gl/cVJYj9 = (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfZvYtvDx1exsGGdpey2q90Azhj4M-yPXklImw1z8CEl8034Q/viewform) On any given day, as many as 4,000 people are locked in isolated confinement in New York’s prisons and jails. This practice is ineffective, unsafe, and inhumane. It causes people detained in terrible conditions to deteriorate psychologically, physically, and also harms their families and communities. On March 13th 2018, people will come together from across the state in Albany to demand an end to this torture! Meet with legislators, learn, and rally to get the Humane Alternatives for Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Act [A. 3080/ S. 4784] passed.

Please fill out the form below to RSVP! Please try to fill it all out to the best of your knowledge (it's okay if you don't know who your Senator/Assembly member are, but if you do know be sure to fill them in).

Urban Water Quality: Citizen Science to Coordinated ActionJoin us on Thursday, March 1 for the 2018 Lower Hudson Urban Waters Summit. We will come together with watersheds in the Lower Hudson Valley along with non-profit organizations, universities, municipalities and agencies at the county, state and federal levels to discuss the latest results of citizen water quality monitoring, and identify opportunities for acting on the results.

Sponsored by:The Bronx River Alliance, the Sarah Lawrence College Center for the Urban River at Beczak, Pace University Dyson College Institute for Sustainability and the Environment, Riverkeeper, Groundwork Hudson Valley, Hudson River Watershed Alliance, Sparkill Creek Watershed Alliance, Pocantico River Watershed Alliance, Saw Mill River Coalition, Federated Conservationists of Westchester County, and Sustainable Westchester.

Author Elaine Weiss discusses her new book, which tells the nail-biting tale of one of the greatest political battles in American history: the ratification of the constitutional amendment that granted women the right to vote.

For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

Book Talk: The Women’s Hour: The Last Furious Fight to Win the VoteTuesday, March 13Doors: 6:00 pmEvent: 6:30 pm$5 General Admission / Free for Members

BHS Members: to reserve tickets at the member price, click on "Tickets" and enter your Member ID on the following page after clicking on "Enter Promotional Code." For questions about this event or other inquiries, contact our Visitor Services desk at 718-222-4111, ext. 250.

REFUND POLICY Brooklyn Historical Society requires 24 hours notice before the date of the event to refund a ticket. No refunds are provided after that point. No refunds are provided on the day of the event and all subsequent days.

End the War and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen!
Panel Tuesday Mar 13 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM in Alsalam Lutheran Church,
414 80th St., Brooklyn
trip planner https://goo.gl/2WoLM5
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Brooklyn For Peace Panel on Yemen End the War and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen! Tues March 13 (in Bay Ridge)

Tues March 13, 6-8 pm:
End the War and Humanitarian Crisis in Yemen!
Hear stories shared by Yemeni women in diaspora and discuss the history, politics, US involvement and current humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Learn more from the experiences of the Yemeni community in the United States fighting the political climate both here and back home.
Location: Alsalam Lutheran Church, 414 80th St. in Bay Ridge (Sorry, this venue is not wheelchair accessible) [R to 77 St. Brooklyn; trip planner https://goo.gl/2WoLM5 ]
Sponsors: National Writers Union, Arab American Association of NY, Arab Ameican Family Support Center
Co-sponsors: Brooklyn For Peace, Jewish Voice for Peace--NYC, and others
Free admission. Refreshments will be served.
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Join us. Hear stories shared by Yemeni women in diaspora and discuss the history, politics, US involvement and current humanitarian crisis in Yemen. With a population of 27 million, at least 10,000 people have been killed, 2 million have been displaced, seven million are in dire need of food assistance and more than 14 million lack access to clean drinking water and sanitation. Learn more from the experiences of the Yemeni community in the United States fighting the political climate both here and back home.

. Bus to lobby Albany w/ Met Council on Housing Thursday Mar. 22 You do not need to attend a prep meeting to join us in Albany. Fill out this form to reserve your seat: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52 ::

The tenants of New York suffer while landlords get rich. Even in rent regulated apartments the rent is too high and our stability is at risk. Nearly 266,000 tenants live with a preferential rent which means their rent can jump hundreds of dollars when their lease is up. On Thursday March 22 , we are getting on the buses to Albany to tell the State Senate they must close the loopholes that are making housing in this city unaffordable. Please join us for a lobby day March 22 . Reserve your seat here: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52

Transportation will be provided free of cost as well as a light breakfast and lunch. Buses will be leaving from multiple locations in city at 6 AM and returning around 7 PM.

On February 22nd, in a powerful show of force, 600 community members packed the Community Board 12 hearing on the Inwood rezoning with more outside who could not get in. The overwhelming majority of people testified against the plan and its negative impacts calling on the Community Board to "Vote No." Read more about the powerful hearing here. You can join us at our next community rally on Monday, March 19 at 6:30 PM at George Washington High School, 549 Audubon Ave.

Join Women's March NYC (WM NYC) for its inaugural event; a "daring discussion" that will explore why black women’s leadership matters in movement building, both historically and today. This candid conversation will be the first of many WM NYC events and actions throughout 2018.

There will be a panel of activists and scholars speaking to the ways that black women have been and will remain leaders of the resistance and architects of tomorrow.

Light refreshments will be served. This event is intended for adults 21 years and older.

Join The Intercept and Normal Life Pictures for a conversation about the victories and challenges of Standing Rock — and what we can take with us as we navigate an era marked by corporate giveaways, emboldened law enforcement, and the increasing criminalization of dissent.

The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill will moderate a panel discussion featuring Lakota historian Nick Estes; NoDAPL organizer and tribal attorney Tara Houska; and Center for Constitutional Rights attorney Pamela Spees. Intercept reporters Alleen Brown and Alice Speri will discuss their “Oil and Water” series, which exposed how law enforcement worked with mercenary forces hired by the company behind the Dakota Access pipeline to surveil and suppress the water protector movement. And filmmaker Eli Cane will show excerpts from his award-winning PBS documentary “On a Knife Edge,” a look at the contemporary American Indian Movement.

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In response to the 2016 Presidential election the artistic activists of the nation have reacted in a myriad of ways, one of which was poetry. Editors Danielle Barnhart and Iris Mahan have weaved through the poetry scene to collect an extraordinary list of poets who have taken a feminist stance against this new administration. This process started as a casual group project and has now expanded into an anthology of women’s resistance, proceeds of which support Planned Parenthood and the Center for Reproductive Rights.

With poems that fight racism, sexism, and violence from powerful new writers, performers, and activists with established poets, this collection represents the complexity and diversity of contemporary womanhood. Join us as Barnhart and Mahan discuss the volume with contributors Rosebud Ben-Oni, Mahogany L. Browne, Denice Frohman, Dorothea Lasky, and Maureen McLane!

Admission Options: Buy a copy of Women of Resistance or a $10 gift card to attend this event. Please note that payment is required for all online event orders at the time of checkout. The event will be located in the Strand's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at our store at 828 Broadway at 12th Street.

Danielle Barnhart is co-founding Editor & Director of Events for Village of Crickets. Winner of the 2015 Donald Everett Axinn Award in Poetry, she lives (and writes) on Long Island with her family.

Rosebud Ben-Oni is a recipient of the 2014 NYFA Fellowship in Poetry and a CantoMundo Fellow. She is the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists Collective, 2013), a contributor to The Conversant, and an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Her poems appear in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, TriQuarterly, Praire Schooner, Arts & Letters, and Hunger Mountain, among others.

Mahogany L. Browne is a Cave Canem, Poets House, and Serenbe Focus alum and the author of several books, including Redbone (nominated for NAACP Outstanding Literary Works), and #Dear Twitter: Love Letters Hashed Out Online in 140 Characters or Less (recommended by Small Press Distribution and About.com Best Poetry Books of 2010). Her poetry has been published in literary journals Pluck, Manhattanville Review, Muzzle, Union Station Mag, Literary Bohemian, Bestiary, Joint and The Feminist Wire.

Denice Frohman is a 2014 CantoMundo Fellow, 2013 Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion, and former Leeway Transformation Award recipient. Her work has appeared on ESPN and The Huffington Post, and is forthcoming in Nepantla: An Anthology for Queer Poets of Color. She has featured at over 200 colleges and universities and hundreds of high schools, non-profits, and cultural arts spaces; she performed at the White House in 2016.

Iris Mahan is a freelance writer, editor, and poet based in New York. She is a graduate of the University of Tennessee in Chatttanooga and Adelphi University, where she was the recipient of the Robert Muroff Scholarship in Creative Writing, and co-founder of Village of Crickets.

Dorothea Lasky is the author of five books of poetry: the forthcoming Milk (Wave Books), ROME (W.W. Norton/Liveright), Thunderbird, Black Life, and AWE (Wave Books). She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Snakes (Tungsten Press) and Poetry is Not a Project (Ugly Duckling Presse), and is the co-editor of Open the Door: How to Excite Young People About Poetry (McSweeney's). She is an Assistant Professor of Poetry at Columbia University's School of the Arts and co-directs the Columbia Artist/Teachers program.

Maureen McLane is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Some Say (FSG), as well as My Poets, a hybrid of memoir and criticism. Her book This Blue was a finalist for the 2015 National Book Award for Poetry.

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John Carlos with Dave Zirin: Political GamesTuesday Mar. 13, 7:00 to 10:00 PM in New York Public Library Schwarzman Bldg.Fifth Avenue at 42nd St, New York, New York 10018 == > $40 TIX http://on.nypl.org/2CxoTuc = (https://www.showclix.com/event/politicalgames/tag/fbevent)https://facebook.com/events/314398942414726/

When you Google “1968 Olympics” the first suggestion returned is “1968 Olympics Black Power salute.” That iconic image, of John Carlos at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City—shoes off, head down, black-gloved fist raised in salute—has come to define the spirit of protest that infused the late 1960s. This spring, as the Library remembers the 1960s in its exhibition, You Say You Want a Revolution, Dr. Carlos will speak with sports writer Dave Zirin about the principles behind the protests of athletes, and what power they have to impact culture and influence politics.

This event, the Richard B. Salomon Distinguished Lecture, is made possible by an endowment established by family and friends of the late Richard B. Salomon.

All proceeds from tickets go toward supporting programming at The New York Public Library.

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Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!December 20 , 2017 CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film “Food Chains”.Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy’s buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold “Freedom Fast”!Fast will take place during week of March 11-15 outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz…

“This is just a faster death.”

With those words — and exactly twenty years ago today — six courageous farmworkers launched a month-long hunger strike in Immokalee, demanding nothing more than dialogue with tomato industry leaders about the unconscionable poverty and human rights abuses in Florida’s fields. Workers at the time faced everything from forced labor to widespread sexual harassment and assault, not to mention daily humiliations in the form of systemic wage theft, violence and verbal harassment at the hands of their bosses, and dangerous working conditions. For the hunger strikers, the unremitting predations of their bosses in the fields far outweighed any possible physical consequences from the strike.

A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon captured the growers’ intransigence during the workers’ hunger strike twenty years ago. Despite the growers’ refusal to meet the strikers’ demand and join workers in dialogue over working conditions, the CIW and tomato industry leaders today work in partnership in what is widely viewed as the most successful social responsibility program in US agriculture.

Though the growers refused to talk with the workers at the time, twenty years later conditions in Florida’s tomato fields have indeed undergone an unprecedented transformation and become the gold standard in the US produce industry. Through tireless protests and consumer education, and the day-to-day hard work of educating workers, investigating and resolving complaints, and auditing for compliance with the unique Fair Food Code of Conduct, the CIW has radically improved the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in Florida’s fields.

The hunger strikers’ extraordinary sacrifice laid the foundation for the groundbreaking Campaign for Fair Food two years later and the success of the Fair Food Program that was to come. Real, profound change was not only necessary and just, it was in fact possible. Meanwhile, in Mexico…

Workers on a Mexican produce farm wash their clothes during a day off in a nearby irrigation ditch. Photo LA Times.

The following are just a few of the headlines out of Mexico’s produce industry since 2011, when the CIW launched the Fair Food Program in partnership with Florida’s tomato industry:

And those cases, beyond any reasonable doubt, are but the tip of the iceberg of farmworker exploitation in Mexico over the past several years. Widespread violence, fear, and corruption ensure impunity for those who abuse and exploit farmworkers in Mexico, and only the rarest of cases ever slips through the shroud of silence to burst forth in the headlines. Sexual violence against women farmworkers — a topic that is effectively taboo in the press — is no exception to that rule.

Despite Mexico’s woeful human rights record, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers and shifted its purchases to Mexico after Florida growers implemented the Fair Food Program. In light of that decision and the ongoing human rights crisis in Mexico’s fields, it is time, finally, to ask some hard questions of Wendy’s:

How many of the cases revealed in the headlines above occurred in Wendy’s supply chain? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes picked in Mexico since the fast-food giant left Florida in response to the Fair Food Program were picked by slaves? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes are now picked by women who have been sexually assaulted by their bosses in the fields?

Unfortunately, answers to these questions are effectively impossible to come by. While we do know that Wendy’s purchased tomatoes from a grower implicated in one of the cases above (“Trump’s Tomatoes,” Harpers, March 2016), the near total lack of transparency in the company’s supply chain makes connecting its purchases to particular abuses effectively impossible. The consequences of Wendy’s thickly veiled supply chain are surely not unintentional, but Wendy’s has shown no willingness to shed light on its supplier network, and workers and consumers alike have grown tired of waiting.Freedom Fast!

To protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry, and to demand that Wendy’s support verifiable freedom from those abuses in its supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program, farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies are announcing the 5-day Freedom Fast to take place this March 11-15 in New York City outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz.

Students at Ohio State University held a week-long fast outside the University’s administration building last spring calling on OSU to boot Wendy’s from campus unless the fast-food giant agreed to join the Fair Food Program. Their fast sparked student fasts on dozens of campuses around the country.

The upcoming Freedom Fast follows on a long tradition of workers and allies putting their bodies on the line to press for justice. The 30-day Hunger Strike in 1997-1998 was the first, and the longest, of such actions by CIW members, but the 10-day Taco Bell fast in 2003, the week-long Fast for Fair Food outside Publix (pictured at the top of this post) in 2012, and the two recent rolling fasts by students (pictured above) and faith leaders all are part of a rich history of CIW fasts for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights (not

Capital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because, as Marx predicted, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions, we’ve been offering this highlights approach, breaking down key concepts and sections:

• use value, value and surplus value;
• why capitalism has needed conquest, enslavement and white supremacy;
• why capitalism drives technological innovation, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;
• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions.

In a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed, we are offering the highlights class this February through April for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.

Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!

The course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion.

Juliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development.
Wed, February 21, 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Wed, April 25, 2018 @ 8:30 PM
$85 - $115
commodity fetishism, Laws of Motion of Capital, precarity, Primitive Accumulation, surplus value, Technological Innovation, unemployment, value, women and capital, working class, Working Class Consciousness

3/30: Discussion on the Militant Image, with Sonia Vaz Borges and special guest6:30p to 8.30p in CUNY Segal Theater

[series blurb] “The militant image comprises any form of image or sound – from essay film to fiction feature, from observational documentary to found-footage ciné-pamphlet, from newsreel to agitational reworking of colonial film production – produced in and through film-making practices dedicated to the liberation struggles and revolutions of the late twentieth century”. Departing from the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial power in Guinea Bissau, this film series explores how the liberation struggles are portrayed through cinematic images. How has recovery of liberation texts, memories and images and their use by filmmakers contributed to the understanding of these revolutionary and liberatory movements.

2/9: The Two Faces of the War (Diana Andringa and Flora Gomes, Portugal, 2007, 100 minutes)This documentary shot in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Portugal includes a series of interviews with and testimonies of people who lived through the period of the anticolonial war and liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau. This film sets the tone for a debate around the themes of reconciliation and historical memory in the post-conflict period of the Portuguese “colonial war” and independence struggle.

2/28: Mined Soil (Filipa César, Portugal, 2014, 34 minutes) and The Return of Cabral (Sana N’Hada, Flora Gomes and Josefina Crato)Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean Agronomist Amílcar Cabral, from studying the erosion of soil in the Portuguese Alentejo region in the 1950’s through his engagement as one of the leaders of the African liberation movements. This line of inquiry intertwines with documentation of a gold mining site, operated today by a Canadian company located in the same Portuguese area once studied by Cabral.During the independence struggle, Amílcar Cabral, co-founder of the African party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was killed in 1973. The Return of Cabral documents the relocation of Cabral’s remains, which had been buried in Guinea Conakry, to Guinea Bissau to Guinea Bissau 3 years after independence was proclaimed by the PAIGC.

3/14: Spell Reel (Filipa César, 2016, 100 minutes)This film is a collaborative reflection on West African political history, and the role of moving images in the creation and legacy of that history. Filmmakers Sana Na N’Hada, Flora Gomes, José Bolama Cobumba, and Josefina Crato, who studied filmmaking in Cuba at the directive of Amílcar Cabral, documented Guinea-Bissau’s independence struggle and the subsequent years of socialist rule. In 1979, Chris Marker spent several months with them, and would later integrate carnival footage shot by N’Hada into Sans Soleil. Following the 1980 military coup, many of the revolutionary films were lost; those that remained were little known and at risk of disappearing. To bring these films, and often just fragments of them, back into the public eye, César has worked closely with Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in its initiative to preserve the history of revolutionary cinema in Guinea-Bissau through research, digitization, and dissemination of the holdings at the National Film Institute of Guinea-Bissau (INCA – Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Audiovisual).

March 30 Discussion on the Militant Image, with Sonia Vaz Borges and special guestThe final event, a few short films or fragments (TBA) will be shown, and we will discuss the use of the militant image in make history relevant to the present.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

THESE EVENTS ARE SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS.

series blurb “The militant image comprises any form of image or sound – from essay film to fiction feature, from observational documentary to found-footage ciné-pamphlet, from newsreel to agitational reworking of colonial film production – produced in through film-making practices dedicated to the liberation struggles and revolutions of the late twentieth century”. Departing from the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial power in Guinea Bissau, this film series explores how the liberation struggles are portrayed through cinematic images. How has recovery of liberation texts, memories and images and their use by filmmakers contributed to the understanding of these revolutionary and liberatory movements.

The Two Faces of the War (Diana Andringa and Flora Gomes, 2007, 100 minutes)This documentary shot in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Portugal includes a series of interviews with and testimonies of people who lived through the period of the anticolonial war and liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau. This film sets the tone for a debate around the themes of reconciliation and historical memory in the post-conflict period of the Portuguese “colonial war” and independence struggle.

Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean Agronomist Amílcar Cabral, from studying the erosion of soil in the Portuguese Alentejo region in the 1950’s through his engagement as one of the leaders of the African liberation movements. This line of inquiry intertwines with documentation of a gold mining site, operated today by a Canadian company located in the same Portuguese area once studied by Cabral.

During the independence struggle, Amílcar Cabral, co-founder of the African party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was killed in 1973. The Return of Cabral documents the relocation of Cabral’s remains, which had been buried in Guinea Conakry, to Guinea Bissau to Guinea Bissau 3 years after independence was proclaimed by the PAIGC.

Spell Reel (Filipa César, 2016, 100 minutes)This film is a collaborative reflection on West African political history, and the role of moving images in the creation and legacy of that history. Filmmakers Sana Na N’Hada, Flora Gomes, José Bolama Cobumba, and Josefina Crato, who studied filmmaking in Cuba at the directive of Amílcar Cabral, documented Guinea-Bissau’s independence struggle and the subsequent years of socialist rule. In 1979, Chris Marker spent several months with them, and would later integrate carnival footage shot by N’Hada into Sans Soleil. Following the 1980 military coup, many of the revolutionary films were lost; those that remained were little known and at risk of disappearing.

To bring these films, and often just fragments of them, back into the public eye, César has worked closely with Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in its initiative to preserve the history of revolutionary cinema in Guinea-Bissau through research, digitization, and dissemination of the holdings at the National Film Institute of Guinea-Bissau (INCA – Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Audiovisual).

March 30 Discussion on the Militant Image, with Sonia Vaz Borges and special guestThe final event, a few short films or fragments (TBA) will be shown, and we will discuss the use of the militant image in make history relevant to the present.

ALL EVENTS IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

THIS SERIES IS SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS.

[series blurb] “The militant image comprises any form of image or sound – from essay film to fiction feature, from observational documentary to found-footage ciné-pamphlet, from newsreel to agitational reworking of colonial film production – produced in and through film-making practices dedicated to the liberation struggles and revolutions of the late twentieth century”. Departing from the liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial power in Guinea Bissau, this film series explores how the liberation struggles are portrayed through cinematic images. How has recovery of liberation texts, memories and images and their use by filmmakers contributed to the understanding of these revolutionary and liberatory movements.

2/9: The Two Faces of the War (Diana Andringa and Flora Gomes, Portugal, 2007, 100 minutes)This documentary shot in Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde, and Portugal includes a series of interviews with and testimonies of people who lived through the period of the anticolonial war and liberation struggle in Guinea Bissau. This film sets the tone for a debate around the themes of reconciliation and historical memory in the post-conflict period of the Portuguese “colonial war” and independence struggle.

2/28: Mined Soil (Filipa César, Portugal, 2014, 34 minutes) and The Return of Cabral (Sana N’Hada, Flora Gomes and Josefina Crato)Mined Soil revisits the work of the Guinean Agronomist Amílcar Cabral, from studying the erosion of soil in the Portuguese Alentejo region in the 1950’s through his engagement as one of the leaders of the African liberation movements. This line of inquiry intertwines with documentation of a gold mining site, operated today by a Canadian company located in the same Portuguese area once studied by Cabral.During the independence struggle, Amílcar Cabral, co-founder of the African party for the Independence of Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC) was killed in 1973. The Return of Cabral documents the relocation of Cabral’s remains, which had been buried in Guinea Conakry, to Guinea Bissau to Guinea Bissau 3 years after independence was proclaimed by the PAIGC.

3/14: Spell Reel (Filipa César, 2016, 100 minutes)This film is a collaborative reflection on West African political history, and the role of moving images in the creation and legacy of that history. Filmmakers Sana Na N’Hada, Flora Gomes, José Bolama Cobumba, and Josefina Crato, who studied filmmaking in Cuba at the directive of Amílcar Cabral, documented Guinea-Bissau’s independence struggle and the subsequent years of socialist rule. In 1979, Chris Marker spent several months with them, and would later integrate carnival footage shot by N’Hada into Sans Soleil. Following the 1980 military coup, many of the revolutionary films were lost; those that remained were little known and at risk of disappearing. To bring these films, and often just fragments of them, back into the public eye, César has worked closely with Arsenal Institute for Film and Video Art in its initiative to preserve the history of revolutionary cinema in Guinea-Bissau through research, digitization, and dissemination of the holdings at the National Film Institute of Guinea-Bissau (INCA – Instituto Nacional de Cinema e Audiovisual).

March 30 Discussion on the Militant Image, with Sonia Vaz Borges and special guestThe final event, a few short films or fragments (TBA) will be shown, and we will discuss the use of the militant image in make history relevant to the present.

ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

THESE EVENTS ARE SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS.

History doesn’t always speak so directly to the present, but Heather Ann Thompson’s Pulitzer-winning account of the 1971 Attica Uprisings is in direct conversation with more recent coverage by the New York Times, also recognized by Pulitzer for investigative reporting in 2017. Our panelists will examine the social and historical forces at work in the American penal system and explain the investigative work behind their findings.

Featuring:Heather Ann Thompson, author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising and Its Legacy, winner of the 2017 Pulitzer for history, and Professor of History and of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.Michael Winerip, former investigative reporter for the New York Times, 2017 finalist for reporting on New York State’s prisons.Elizabeth Hinton, Assistant Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America.Toussaint Losier, Assistant Professor of Afro-American History at University of Massachusetts. Toussaint will moderate.

This is the first of four evenings featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning writers and journalists. This initiative seeks to deepen the public’s knowledge and appreciation of the vital connections between democracy, the humanities, journalism, and an informed citizenry.

We thank The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their generous support of this initiative and the Pulitzer Prizes for their partnership. This event is sponsored in part by Harvard University Press.Share In MessengerTo: Add a message...

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. Bus to lobby Albany w/ Met Council on Housing Thursday Mar. 22 You do not need to attend a prep meeting to join us in Albany. Fill out this form to reserve your seat: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52 ::

The tenants of New York suffer while landlords get rich. Even in rent regulated apartments the rent is too high and our stability is at risk. Nearly 266,000 tenants live with a preferential rent which means their rent can jump hundreds of dollars when their lease is up. On Thursday March 22 , we are getting on the buses to Albany to tell the State Senate they must close the loopholes that are making housing in this city unaffordable. Please join us for a lobby day March 22 . Reserve your seat here: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52

Transportation will be provided free of cost as well as a light breakfast and lunch. Buses will be leaving from multiple locations in city at 6 AM and returning around 7 PM.

On February 22nd, in a powerful show of force, 600 community members packed the Community Board 12 hearing on the Inwood rezoning with more outside who could not get in. The overwhelming majority of people testified against the plan and its negative impacts calling on the Community Board to "Vote No." Read more about the powerful hearing here. You can join us at our next community rally on Monday, March 19 at 6:30 PM at George Washington High School, 549 Audubon Ave.

When time permits, we will open the floor to questions and comments. Our goal is to develop the understanding and ability of the audience to explain current economic events and trends to others. Entrance Fee: $10 per person. Contributions to Democracy at Work are tax deductible (we will gladly provide receipts). For those able to contribute more than $10, our special thanks. Co-Sponsored by Democracy at Work, Judson Memorial Church, and Left Forum

Farmworkers to hold 5-Day “Freedom Fast,” March 11-15, outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz!December 20 , 2017 CIW members and allies gather at the ceremony breaking their weeklong fast outside Publix headquarters in 2012. The fast was featured in the James Beard Award-winning film “Food Chains”.Demanding freedom from sexual violence and slavery in the fields where Wendy’s buys its tomatoes, farmworkers from Immokalee and their allies will hold “Freedom Fast”!Fast will take place during week of March 11-15 outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz…

“This is just a faster death.”

With those words — and exactly twenty years ago today — six courageous farmworkers launched a month-long hunger strike in Immokalee, demanding nothing more than dialogue with tomato industry leaders about the unconscionable poverty and human rights abuses in Florida’s fields. Workers at the time faced everything from forced labor to widespread sexual harassment and assault, not to mention daily humiliations in the form of systemic wage theft, violence and verbal harassment at the hands of their bosses, and dangerous working conditions. For the hunger strikers, the unremitting predations of their bosses in the fields far outweighed any possible physical consequences from the strike.

A Naples Daily News editorial cartoon captured the growers’ intransigence during the workers’ hunger strike twenty years ago. Despite the growers’ refusal to meet the strikers’ demand and join workers in dialogue over working conditions, the CIW and tomato industry leaders today work in partnership in what is widely viewed as the most successful social responsibility program in US agriculture.

Though the growers refused to talk with the workers at the time, twenty years later conditions in Florida’s tomato fields have indeed undergone an unprecedented transformation and become the gold standard in the US produce industry. Through tireless protests and consumer education, and the day-to-day hard work of educating workers, investigating and resolving complaints, and auditing for compliance with the unique Fair Food Code of Conduct, the CIW has radically improved the lives of tens of thousands of farmworkers in Florida’s fields.

The hunger strikers’ extraordinary sacrifice laid the foundation for the groundbreaking Campaign for Fair Food two years later and the success of the Fair Food Program that was to come. Real, profound change was not only necessary and just, it was in fact possible. Meanwhile, in Mexico…

Workers on a Mexican produce farm wash their clothes during a day off in a nearby irrigation ditch. Photo LA Times.

The following are just a few of the headlines out of Mexico’s produce industry since 2011, when the CIW launched the Fair Food Program in partnership with Florida’s tomato industry:

And those cases, beyond any reasonable doubt, are but the tip of the iceberg of farmworker exploitation in Mexico over the past several years. Widespread violence, fear, and corruption ensure impunity for those who abuse and exploit farmworkers in Mexico, and only the rarest of cases ever slips through the shroud of silence to burst forth in the headlines. Sexual violence against women farmworkers — a topic that is effectively taboo in the press — is no exception to that rule.

Despite Mexico’s woeful human rights record, Wendy’s abandoned its longtime Florida tomato suppliers and shifted its purchases to Mexico after Florida growers implemented the Fair Food Program. In light of that decision and the ongoing human rights crisis in Mexico’s fields, it is time, finally, to ask some hard questions of Wendy’s:

How many of the cases revealed in the headlines above occurred in Wendy’s supply chain? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes picked in Mexico since the fast-food giant left Florida in response to the Fair Food Program were picked by slaves? How many of Wendy’s tomatoes are now picked by women who have been sexually assaulted by their bosses in the fields?

Unfortunately, answers to these questions are effectively impossible to come by. While we do know that Wendy’s purchased tomatoes from a grower implicated in one of the cases above (“Trump’s Tomatoes,” Harpers, March 2016), the near total lack of transparency in the company’s supply chain makes connecting its purchases to particular abuses effectively impossible. The consequences of Wendy’s thickly veiled supply chain are surely not unintentional, but Wendy’s has shown no willingness to shed light on its supplier network, and workers and consumers alike have grown tired of waiting.Freedom Fast!

To protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico’s produce industry, and to demand that Wendy’s support verifiable freedom from those abuses in its supply chain by joining the Fair Food Program, farmworkers from Immokalee and their consumer allies are announcing the 5-day Freedom Fast to take place this March 11-15 in New York City outside the hedge fund offices of Wendy’s Board Chair Nelson Peltz.

Students at Ohio State University held a week-long fast outside the University’s administration building last spring calling on OSU to boot Wendy’s from campus unless the fast-food giant agreed to join the Fair Food Program. Their fast sparked student fasts on dozens of campuses around the country.

The upcoming Freedom Fast follows on a long tradition of workers and allies putting their bodies on the line to press for justice. The 30-day Hunger Strike in 1997-1998 was the first, and the longest, of such actions by CIW members, but the 10-day Taco Bell fast in 2003, the week-long Fast for Fair Food outside Publix (pictured at the top of this post) in 2012, and the two recent rolling fasts by students (pictured above) and faith leaders all are part of a rich history of CIW fasts for farmworkers’ fundamental human rights (not

After months of protesting, multiple walk-outs and rallies across the city, and hours of advocacy, Chief Judge Janet DiFiore has still not heeded the call of New York City's immigrant communities to prohibit ICE agents from entering NY Courts.

The time has come to act. This policy of continued cooperation with ICE puts our clients in danger, robs them of their right to due process, and makes the Office of Court Administration complicit in Trump's horrific mass deportation agenda.

On March 15 at 4pm in Foley Square, Legal Aid Attorneys, Public Defenders, Unions and Community Groups will come together and march to the Office of Court Administration to demand that the Chief Judge take immediate action to protect our clients!

About Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW 2325Association of Legal Aid Attorneys - UAW 2325Nonprofit Organization · New York, New YorkFounded in 1969, ALAA is the oldest union of attorneys in the United States. Every day, our members fight for justice for poor and low-income New Yorkers.

From March 11-15, farmworkers from Immokalee, together with their consumer allies, are launching the five-day Freedom Fast outside the Manhattan hedge fund offices of Nelson Peltz, Wendy's largest shareholder and Chair of its Board of Directors. The Fast will demand that Wendy's join the rest of the fast-food industry in supporting the Fair Food Program's groundbreaking worker protections, and will protest the ongoing human rights abuses faced by workers in Mexico's produce industry where Wendy's currently buys its tomatoes. The Freedom Fast will then culminate with a massive Time's Up Wendy's March on Thursday, March 15 through the heart of Manhattan.

NEW YORKERS & NATIONAL ALLIES: Mobilize your groups to support farmworker women with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers fighting to end sexual harassment and assault in the fields! Consumers will NOT remain silent knowing Wendy's has chosen to partner with an industry where its brand will be protected because women there are afraid to complain and are forced into silence.

The time is up for corporate leaders, like Mr. Peltz, who have the power to end sexual violence against women in their supply chains and yet, do nothing. Read more about why we're fasting here:

Please join us at the Women in Black Union Square Vigil,
Thursday March 15, 5:30-6:30 14th Street & Broadway as we demand justice in Palestine!

Please join us as we say FREE AHED TAMIMI and all Palestinian children detained in Israeli jails.

NOTE: Women in Black Union Square (NYC) is a group of women (and some men) of diverse religious and national backgrounds. We stand at Union Square EVERY THURSDAY, with the following exceptions:
The following holidays: We do not hold the vigil when it falls on the first day of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, the first night of Passover or major national holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's day.)

Severe weather, as follows: Given that unpredictable climate change has become the norm, we try to avoid extreme weather when predicted, and adapt to be flexible. If it gets too cold or too hot, we leave early. We will not hold the vigil when the temperature is lower than 40 degrees F,, higher than 90 degrees, or in blizzard, or thunderstorm. When the weather is a bit troublesome but not prohibitive, we sometimes move down the block, chasing the shade, or across the street, to escape the raindrops. Please look for us. And if the weather permits, PLEASE JOIN US! If you took home any of our signs, please bring them. Thanks

Please join us as we say FREE AHED TAMIMI and all Palestinian children detained in Israeli jails.

NOTE: Women in Black Union Square (NYC) is a group of women (and some men) of diverse religious and national backgrounds. We stand at Union Square EVERY THURSDAY, with the following exceptions:
The following holidays: We do not hold the vigil when it falls on the first day of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, the first night of Passover or major national holidays (Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's day.)

Severe weather, as follows: Given that unpredictable climate change has become the norm, we try to avoid extreme weather when predicted, and adapt to be flexible. If it gets too cold or too hot, we leave early. We will not hold the vigil when the temperature is lower than 40 degrees F,, higher than 90 degrees, or in blizzard, or thunderstorm. When the weather is a bit troublesome but not prohibitive, we sometimes move down the block, chasing the shade, or across the street, to escape the raindrops. Please look for us. And if the weather permits, PLEASE JOIN US! If you took home any of our signs, please bring them. Thanks

This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement.

FRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism, science, nature, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.

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Join us for the next event in our series "What's Happening in Albany," featuring monthly panels highlighting important legislation that has been stalled in the state legislature thanks to the Republican-led State Senate. Our next discussion will focus on the DREAM Act and feature guests including:Zellnor Myrie, candidate for State Senate District 20Jessica Ramos, candidate for State Senate District 13Luis Yumbla, United We DreamKarina Davila, Yonkers Sanctuary MovementYatziri Tovar, Make the Road NY

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Join us for a participatory workshop on immigrant rights by the authors of The Politics of Immigration, as well as an information session and update on the sanctuary at Holyrood Episcopal Church, where AmandaMorales Guerra and her children have been housed since August 2017.

We don't want our family members, friends, and neighbors hauled away and deported. Many of us areactively working to defend community members from deportation, like Ravi Ragbir, leader of the NYC New Sanctuary Coalition, and Amanda Morales Guerra, who has been in sanctuary at Holyrood Episcopal Church in Washington Heights since August.But do we really understand the system we are fighting against? Do we have the tools to respond effectively to tough questions from family members, co-workers, and others who don't share our views? For example:

Why do so many people come here “illegally”? Why don't they just wait in line? If someone committed a crime in this country, why shouldn't they be deported? Don't unauthorized immigrants push down wages for everyone? Can we really afford to have so many immigrants here? Isn't our current immigration system color-blind? What would an alternative system look like, and how do we get there?

Bring your questions and thoughts to this participatory workshop facilitated by Jane Guskin and David Wilson, authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (Monthly Review Press 2017). Together we will strengthen our skills and deepen our understanding to engage more effectively in dialogue around immigration issues.

The sanctuary information session will be led by Renee Colwell, volunteer coordinator at Holyrood Episcopal Church, who will share with neighbors how they can help.

The NYC Democratic Socialists of AmericaSocialist Feminist Working Group will host an 8-week-long mixed-gender reading group on reproductive justice. Our intent is to give participants a thorough understanding of debates and contemporary issues surrounding reproductive justice [or freedom] in the hope of connecting our praxis to theory.

The term “reproductive justice” was created by black women activists in 1994. It refers to an understanding of reproductive rights and activism that goes beyond “abortion rights” and the language of “choice” in favor of a holistic understanding of human rights. SisterSong defines the term as “three interconnected human rights values: the right not to have children using safe birth control, abortion, or abstinence; the right to have children under the conditions we choose; and the right to parent the children we have in safe and healthy environments.”

Location: The Nation, 520 8th Avenue, 21st floor (You will need a photo ID to enter the building. If the office is locked try ringing the doorbell but someone should be there to greet you.)

Please feel free to read long with us at home if you can't make it in person! Here is the syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/197jWoHgqNT-xR-gmq4DErrCmOxmeyZtv0esBbBCLyJI/edit?usp=sharing

The reproductive justice paradigm takes into account the impact of oppressions such as class, gender, race, sexuality, and citizenship status, all of which influence one's reproductive freedom. We will discuss the eugenics movement, population control, sterilization abuse, the legacy of Margaret Sanger, violence, welfare, LGBTQ rights, and the US healthcare system.

On the tenth anniversary of her influential essay “Men Explain Things to Me,” Rebecca Solnit comes to New York to read from the essay and discuss the current feminist upheavals and the evolution of a newly energized and transformative movement with writers Aruna d’Souza, Mona Eltahawy, and Marina Sitrin.

As she writes in the essay, "Men explain things to me, and other women, whether or not they know what they’re talking about... Every woman knows what I’m talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaking up and from being heard when they dare; that crushes young women into silence by indicating, the way harassment on the street does, that this is not their world. It trains us in self-doubt and self-limitation just as it exercises men’s unsupported overconfidence.”

Sponsored by Cooper Union, Haymarket Books, and Strand Book Store

Author book-signing to follow. Strand Books will be onsite with books available for purchase.

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including a trilogy of atlases and the books The Mother of All Questions, Hope in the Dark, and Men Explain Things to Me; The Faraway Nearby; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West.Aruna D'Souza writes about modern and contemporary art, food, and culture; intersectional feminisms and other forms of politics; how museums shape our views of each other and the world; and books. Her work appears regularly in 4Columns.org, where she is a member of the editorial advisory board, as well as in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Art News, Garage, Bookforum, Momus, and Art Practical.Mona Eltahawy is an award-winning columnist and international public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues and global feminism. She is based in Cairo and New York City. She is the author of Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution, released April 2015, and is a contributor to the New York Times opinion pages. Her commentaries have appeared in several other publications and she is a regular guest analyst on various television and radio shows.Marina Sitrin is a writer, lawyer, teacher, organizer, militant, and dreamer. She is the editor of Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina and Everyday Revolutions: Horizontalism & Autonomy in Argentina. Marina’s work has been published in The International Journal of Comparative Sociology, Znet, Yes! Magazine, Tidal, The Nation, Dissent!, Upping the Anti, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, AlterNet, and Prensa Latina, among others. She has a JD in International Womens’ Human Rights from CUNY Law School and a PhD in Global Sociology from Stony Brook University.

In order to make the most of our consumer education sessions, we're going to schedule based on traffic at the restaurant and volunteer availability.

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Political OrganizationThe Labor and Strike Solidarity Working Group is organizing NYC-DSA members to support strikes, contract campaigns, and other labor actions in the region.NYC Democratic Socialists of America

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“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven

The writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon, it published Traven’s first novel, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers), of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven's other works his name is Gale, or Gerard Gales), an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Death Ship, and the six volume series we will read this term.

The Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for revolt, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

The Jungle NovelsThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations,

Government (1931)Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.

March to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.

Trozas (1936)Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz's rule.

The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) ISBNThis fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.

A General from the Jungle (1940)Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate, uneducated, and poor, but resourceful and dangerous.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

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My Lai Massacre – Save the Dates Jan 5 & March 16, 2018
One of the most painful acts committed by the US military in Viet Nam was the
March 16, 1968, massacre of 504 innocent women and children in the village hamlet of My Lai. The Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee is planning to remember that event, as well as other systematic killings of innocent Vietnamese, on Friday, March 16, 2018 with a public vigil in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House
from 12 noon to 1:30 pm.

We hope you will come, mark your calendars now and please share this event with your friends and colleagues.

We plan to lift up the ongoing issues of war legacies, Agent Orange, defoliation, unexploded ordnances and treatment for veterans here and there. We call upon the US government and military to publicly acknowledge other atrocities in Viet Nam and to release military records and information to the public. And we call for an end to all wars and military strategies that target civilians as the US did in Indochina. At the vigil we also plan to read all 504 names of the Vietnamese.

You are invited to our first organizing and planning meeting which will be held at the offices of the Institute for Policy Studies on Friday, January 5, 2018, from 12 noon to 1:30 pm. The address is 1301 Connecticut Avenue NW Room 600. Use Dupont Circle Red Metro Stop one block away.

Please share your thoughts and let us know if you will be able to attend the January meeting. For more go to: http://vietnampeace.org.

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On the occasion of Zoe Leonard: Survey, the artist speaks with writer Rebecca Solnit about their shared interests and commitments ranging from the history of photography and landscapes of the natural and built environment, to feminism and the current political climate.

Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster.

As part of an international Week of Action for Anarchists in Russia, RAM-NYC is hosting a deejay night and film screening benefit at June Bar on Friday, March 16. While Putin gears up for elections on March 18 , the FSB (Federal Security Service) has been cracking down on anarchists and anti-fascists with raids and mass arrests in several cities. Many of those detained have been tortured with methods including electrocution. Come out to show solidarity with comrades facing repression in Russia!

From the call to action: “Today, hangmen and terrorists want to be “elected” for the new term. And all of us can see what this election is. Now we can draw public attention (Russian and international), limit the scope of terror today and postpone its beginning tomorrow. Only public pressure can hinder state terrorism. We are calling for action. Evenings of solidarity, street agitation, spread of information, performances or rallies, everything for what you have power and fantasy, everything that could draw attention to the lawlessness, everything won’t be in vain.

Putin’s new term is a prison term for every Russian.

Requisites for help to repressed anarchists and addresses for letters: naroborona.info/2018/02/13”

More info: (https://insurrectionnewsworldwide.com/2018/03/07/worldwide-call-for-a-week-of-action-for-anarchists-in-russia-march-11-18-2018/)

Join us at the St. Patrick's Day Parade to tell Governor Cuomo to walk the talk on climate and move off fossil fuels now.

We'll have a rare opportunity to tell Cuomo – in person – that we need bold leadership on climate change. That means saying no to fossil fuels and embracing a rapid, just transition to 100% renewable energy.

Together, we'll send a strong message to Governor Cuomo. No more empty promises, we need decisive action! It's time for Cuomo to walk the walk and move New York off fossil fuels.

FeaturingFood & Water Watch works to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainable.Sane Energy ProjectSane Energy Project opposes the development, transport and export of shale gas. We support the goal of New York State being 100% renewable by 2050.New York Communities for ChangeUniting Neighborhoods in the Fight for Economic JusticeNYPIRGThe New York Public Interest Research Group Fund (NYPIRG) is a non-partisan, nonprofit, research and public education organization.

Join Rise and Resist and DSA on March 17, 11am to 4pm, NYU Vanderbilt Hall, Room 212, to learn why and how we use nonviolence, consensus-based decision-making, affinity groups, and jail-house solidarity to keep ourselves and each other as safe as possible while pressuring intransigent systems for change.

This five+ hour training includes exercises and role-plays as well as advice and tips for the day-of an action, with a break for lunch and a few stretch breaks.

This training is for people who have not previously received a nonviolent civil disobedience training -- or if you last were trained during the Lindsay or Koch or Giuliani administrations...

Please join the International Socialist Organization - NYC in this discussion, as part of our ongoing Socialism Series.

In the wake of historic tax cuts for the wealthy, big business and the capitalist press have begun to celebrate the return of economic (and job) growth, and a so-called "Trump Boom." The first year of the Trump regime largely has seen a continuation of the neoliberal economic policies which have been the bi-partisan consensus for decades - radically deepening the social crisis and furthering economic inequality and redistribution upwards to the rich.

Yet Trump has broken from other aspects of the neoliberal consensus, and recently returned to his earlier promises of massive deficit spending to support the military and the threat of trade wars (most importantly directed at China), beginning with import tariffs on steel and aluminum.

To what extent does this represent a qualitative shift in the US economy (and, in turn, the world system), post-2008 economic crisis? To what extent is it a vindication of a Trump effect, or simply a cyclical moment of growth, leaving underlying contradictions in the national and international economy unresolved?

Speaker: Lee Sustar is frequent writer on economic and labor matters for Socialist Worker, and contributor to the International Socialist Review, Jacobin and other publications. He will speak to kick off our discussion.

We are the New York City district of the International Socialist Organization.

CEMOTAP Forum on Black Panther MovieSaturday Mar. 17 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM at CEMOTAP13505 Rockaway Blvd, South Ozone Park 11420map https://goo.gl/maps/cMrG9gihstntrip planners http://mta.info , https://goo.gl/y51mV9weekend transit changes & cuts http://mta.info/weekenderbus map http://web.mta.info/nyct/maps/busqns.pdfevent graphic https://goo.gl/g2CTCt event description https://facebook.com/events/1229772320487287/ 347) 907.0629 https://bepaa.wordpress.com (212) 283-7287 https://facebook.com/pg/CEMOTAP-122568097799371/events/https://facebook.com/pg/BoardForTheEducationOfPeopleOfAfricanAncestry/((718) 322-8454 Public · Hosted by BEPAA and CEMOTAP Larry Hamm, Chairman of People's Organization for Progress, Nana Camille Yarbrough,recording artist and star of stage and screen, Assemblyman Charles Barron and Council Member Inez Barron, Activisits Brother Razakhan Shaheed and Sister Pam Africa , Brother Talib Shakur, Activist and Son of Dr. Mutulu Shakur and Milton Allimadi, Publisher of the Black Star News analyze the move: "Black Panther" and answer the question: Does it help us, hurt us or does it make no difference? The event is a fundraiser and support rally for Political Prisoner, activist and healer Dr. Mutulu Shakur currently in his 32nd year of incarceration for serious crimes including liberating Assata Shakur from prison. The event starts at 2 pm and will take place at

Recent PostsCEMOTAP — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqiV9QwSUAM20 hrsRead MoreJames Brown — http://criticalresistance.org/dr-mutulu-shakur-is-welcome-here/22 hrsRead MoreAsukile Mitchell — Baba James McIntosh I'd like to be a part of this panel also if possible. Please inbox me.February 24 at 11:25pmRead MoreSee All PostsAbout BEPAABEPAASchool · New York, New YorkThis page is for posts from BEPAA about educational events, policies relevant to people of African Ancestry.About the VenueCEMOTAPPublic ServiceCEMOTAP's photo.CEMOTAP535 Likes24 talking about thisGo to PageMore Events at CEMOTAPAPR21InterestedCEMOTAP 31st Anniversary"Sat 3 PM · 2 people are goingRead MoreSee All Events3 p

Outwright Ltd and Freedom Hall Present:The Negro Renaissance Part II: 1924-1929The program will be comprised of a historic overview of Harlem and the Negro Renaissance by African American Scholar James Wright, followed by presentations of the lives and works of many of its major figures. Focus will be on the peak years of the Movement (1924-1929) when the New Negro was in vogue and Harlem was the cultural center of it all.

Unlearning Dystopia: Black UtopiasSteffani JemisonUnlearning Dystopia is a public program series, organized by the publication Shifter, elaborating on the utopian ideals present in Art in General’s New Commission, Zach Blas: Contra-Internet. Shifter has invited the artist and special guests to present three participatory workshops that explore ideas of ecotopias, black utopias, and queer utopias.

Unlearning Dystopia is the second installment of Learning and Unlearning, an experimental discussion series organized by Shifter. Shifter’s aim is to use shared gatherings to unlearn the assumptions and prejudices we hold about each other. In Unlearning Dystopia, we will focus on how we can unlearn the projected dystopias associated with ecology, blackness and queerness, and ask what possible futures can emerge through this process of unlearning. The series will unfold as three events that think beyond the academic lecture or seminar as a format. Artists facilitate each event, featuring: Terike Haapoja on Ecotopias (February 10), Steffani Jemison on Black Utopias (March 17), and Zach Blas on Queer Utopias (April 14). The organizers Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert will guide us to ask, what other possible futures might emerge merely by unlearning dystopia?"

The second edition of Unlearning Dystopia invites artist Steffani Jemison to elaborate on her own research and thinking around Black Utopias. Jemison will consider the nostalgic and messianic features of black utopian thought in fiction, and the possibilities they have held and continue to hold in relation to real political planning and action.

Steffani Jemison is an artist based in Brooklyn. She uses time-based, photographic, and discursive platforms to examine “progress” and its alternatives. Jemison’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Her work has been presented at the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, The Drawing Center, LAXART, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art, Bridget Donahue, Laurel Gitlen,Team Gallery, and others. Her work is in the public collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Kadist Foundation. www.steffanijemison.com

Shifter is a topical publication that aims to illuminate and broaden our understanding of the intersections between contemporary art, politics, and philosophy. Shifter remains malleable and responsive in its form and activities, and represents a diversity of positions and backgrounds in its contributors. The publication is edited by Sreshta Rit Premnath and Avi Alpert. www.shifter-magazine.com

Note that during these events the exhibition Zach Blas: Contra-Internet will be on limited view. Visitors are welcome to experience the full exhibition directly before each event. More information on the event series can be found on our website at www.artingeneral.org/exhibitions/659.

Join Jacobin on St. Patrick's day: We'll be stocked up to the rafters with beer and wine, ready to celebrate our new issue. A party will follow the program, so hang with us all night long!

About the program:To make health care work for us, it must stop working for profit. Our discussion will feature issue contributors:Steffie Woolhandler (Physicians for a National Health Program)Adam Gaffney (issue co-editor)moderated by Laura Bartkowiak

* * *About the speakers:Steffie Woolhandler is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a primary-care doctor in Cambridge. For our new issue, Wooldhandler co-authored "How Single Payer Could Fail," a discussion of the many ways health care is shaped by profit.Adam Gaffney is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Cambridge Health Alliance. For our new issue, Gaffney contributed "Do We Need Pfizer?," detailing the ways drug research and development are shaped by the profit motive.

Join Jacobin on St. Patrick's Day: we'll be stocked up to the rafters with beer and wine, ready to celebrate our new issue.

A party will follow the program.

About the program:To make health care work for us, it must stop working for profit. Our discussion will feature issue contributors:Steffie Woolhandler (Physicians for a National Health Program)Adam Gaffney (issue co-editor)Natalie Shure (health care contributor for Jacobin)moderated by Laura Bartkowiak

* * *About the speakers:Steffie Woolhandler is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program, and a primary-care doctor in Cambridge. For our new issue, Wooldhandler co-authored "How Single Payer Could Fail," a discussion of the many ways health care is shaped by profit.Adam Gaffney is an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School and a pulmonary and critical care doctor at Cambridge Health Alliance. For our new issue, Gaffney contributed "Do We Need Pfizer?," detailing the ways drug research and development are shaped by the profit motive.Natalie Shure is a TV producer and writer whose work has appeared in the Atlantic, Slate, Pacific Standard and elsewhere. Shure wrote "Model Consumers," for our new issue, about failures of Obamacare.

Saturday, March 17, 2018
at the Peoples’ Voice Cafe / Community Church of New York
40 East 35th Street (Lower Level)
Between Madison & Park Avenues
New York, NY 10016

Doors open 7:30 PM. Show time 8:00 PM.

Cosponsored by Folk Music Society of New York. Suggested contribution $20. Peoples' Voice Cafe subscribers and Folk Music Society of New York members $12. Students and youth $12. More if you choose, less if you can’t. No one turned away for lack of money.

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

Come to Lucky! Have a Drink! Spray a Sign! Tip Your Bartender! We need more signs and tees for the 2 Marches we will be participating in for the March For Our Lives. Come help us, or make your own sign with our stencil set.

If you want a tee for either march please bring an orange tee. We want to make the Marches as orange as possible as orange is the color of the GVP movement.

FeaturingGays Against GunsPolitical OrganizationGays Against Guns NY is an inclusive group of LGBTQ people and their allies committed to nonviolently breaking the gun industry's chain of death.

Rise and ResistCommunityWe are taking direct action together for equality, justice, and human rights. We are rising against oppression and tyranny. We are building a better world.

NYC Black & Pink & the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project would like to invite you to our afternoon letter writing. What can you bring? Writing materials, stamps if you want! We can always use more postage.Help us in alleviating the isolation of prison!Consider making sure this is happening before traveling to attend. -t.

No one should have to choose between their job, their personal responsibilities and their vote. It’s time for Albany to hear us loud & clear: 2018 is the year NY gets Early Voting!

With money pay for early voting included in the Governor’s budget, we’ve never been closer to joining the 37 other states that have Early Voting.

But now we need to convince our State Reps to accept the money and include Early Voting in the final state budget. Negotiations are going on throughout March behind closed doors in Albany, so they need to hear from us loud and clear!

We need every concerned New Yorker to come out and join us to be sure our leaders get the message that we expect them to keep money for Early Voting in the budget, and Let NY Vote!

Public · Hosted by Red Bloom: A Communist Collective redbloom.nyc@gmail.comhttps://facebook.com/NYCCommunists/events

https://redbloomcommunistcollective.wordpress.com/join/https://www.facebook.com/unnameable/https://www.facebook.com/pg/unnameable/events/ unnameablebooks@earthlink.net http://unnameablebooks.blogspot.com (718) 789-1534 Our Marxist Feminist Discussion group is back! This month we will be presenting a sympathetic history of Queers for Economic Justice which closed its doors in 2014. We will also be discussing queer poverty and homelessness, and other economic struggles queers face.

To frame the discussion we will be reading "Queer Precarity and the Myth of Gay Affluence" by Amber Hollibaugh and Margot Weiss and "Common Ground: The Queerness of Welfare Policy" by Joseph N. DeFilippis.

This month's guest speaker is Michelle O'Brien. Michelle O’Brien previously worked at QEJ. Today, she continues to research the movements of working class and poor queer and trans people. She is trans, and a communist.

http://sfonline.barnard.edu/a-new-queer-agenda/comm...March 12 at 4:44pmRead MoreKirsten Adorian — So funny I’m reading the description and thinking “I should invite Michelle to this if she doesn’t know about it already, this sounds right up her all...March 7 at 7:52pmRead MoreA-Isabel Leong Knr — damn, I'm going to be in Mexico :(March 7 at 12:25pmRead MoreSee All PostsAbout Red Bloom: A Communist CollectiveRed Bloom: A Communist CollectivePolitical OrganizationWe are a revolutionary communist collective based in NYC who aim to develop revolutionary practice relevant to the current conditions in NYC and beyond.About the VenueUnnameable BooksBookstore · 6,855 LikesUnnameable Books's photo.Unnameable Books

The 7 Train Coalition is a group of organizations and individuals representing the neighborhoods of Queens along the 7 Train, dedicated to fighting against gentrification & displacement and pushing for development determined and led by our communities. Join us on Sunday, March 18th, for the 7 Train Coalition's official launch, where we will discuss the steps necessary to defend our borough.

If your organization is interested in joining, please contact us at 7TrainCoalition@gmail.com or come meet us and talk in person on the 18th!

THE COALITION:Anakbayan New YorkCoalition to Defend CoronaMigrante New YorkQueens Anti-Gentrification Project

Join the Race and Public Space Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge for a conversation between Reparations Project Director, Michael Ralph, and renowned tax lawyer, Haben Abraha, about the prospect of reparations for all US taxpayers based on Robert Meister's insight that the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, or "2008 Bailout," constitutes an act of extortion that demands redress.

Can't make it? Watch the live-stream on Facebook or Instagram.

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THE REPARATIONS PROJECT

During the Spring of 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

This inquiry will take the form of common readings to explore and frame the central issues, lectures by experts to interrogate the stakes, legal research to evaluate the case, and economic and statistical analysis to explore the feasibility of reparations for peoples and nations victimized by colonial slavery.

The Reparations Project
During Spring 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

The indeterminacy of time-being at the core of quantum theory troubles the scalar distinction between the world of subatomic particles and that of social phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, militarism, racism, nationalism and environmental destruction – all of which are entangled with nuclear and particle physics research. Quantum physics is a material-discursive practice with direct ties to the military-industrial complex, and while it gave birth to the atomic age, quantum physics disrupts classical Newtonian physics (which has its own troubled legacy in the service of war, colonialism, capitalist expansion, and empire building), including its foundational notions of space, time, and matter. In the annual Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture, Karen Barad takes up quantum physics’ immanent deconstructive dynamics, consider ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and ask whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly by undoing the future.

Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There, she co-directs the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, which “trains science and engineering students alongside social science and humanities students to identify and respond to moments where research requires attentiveness to questions of policy, ethics, and justice.” She has a doctorate in theoretical partical physics and is the author of author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.

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This event is free and open to the public. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

below was excerpted from BCRW event listings on FB as of late December...

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15 years ago, the United States started an illegal and illegitimate invasion of Iraq, sparking a large worldwide protest movement. Join us for a screening of Amir Amirani's "We Are Many", which documents the "new people power" movement. The screening will be followed with a panel of speakers, including:

Recent PostsPeace Action New York State — The activist roundtable following the screening will include: Matt Howard of About Face / Iraq Veterans Against the War, Mohammad Khan of MPower Chang...17 hrsRead MoreKate Alexander — Check it out: the We Are Many film trailer about the Iraq War protests.

The indeterminacy of time-being at the core of quantum theory troubles the scalar distinction between the world of subatomic particles and that of social phenomena such as colonialism, capitalism, militarism, racism, nationalism and environmental destruction – all of which are entangled with nuclear and particle physics research. Quantum physics is a material-discursive practice with direct ties to the military-industrial complex, and while it gave birth to the atomic age, quantum physics disrupts classical Newtonian physics (which has its own troubled legacy in the service of war, colonialism, capitalist expansion, and empire building), including its foundational notions of space, time, and matter. In the annual Roslyn Silver ’27 Science Lecture, Karen Barad takes up quantum physics’ immanent deconstructive dynamics, consider ways in which quantum physics troubles modernist conceptions of time, and ask whether quantum temporalities might offer radical political imaginaries for cohabiting this planet more justly by undoing the future.

Karen Barad is Professor of Feminist Studies, Philosophy, and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. There, she co-directs the Science & Justice Graduate Training Program, funded by the National Science Foundation, which “trains science and engineering students alongside social science and humanities students to identify and respond to moments where research requires attentiveness to questions of policy, ethics, and justice.” She has a doctorate in theoretical partical physics and is the author of author of Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning.

Details and Accessibility

This event is free and open to the public. The venue is accessible to people with mobility disabilities. Please contact BCRW for additional accessibility needs.

below was excerpted from BCRW event listings on FB as of late December...

. Bus to lobby Albany w/ Met Council on Housing Thursday Mar. 22 You do not need to attend a prep meeting to join us in Albany. Fill out this form to reserve your seat: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52 ::

The tenants of New York suffer while landlords get rich. Even in rent regulated apartments the rent is too high and our stability is at risk. Nearly 266,000 tenants live with a preferential rent which means their rent can jump hundreds of dollars when their lease is up. On Thursday March 22 , we are getting on the buses to Albany to tell the State Senate they must close the loopholes that are making housing in this city unaffordable. Please join us for a lobby day March 22 . Reserve your seat here: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52

Transportation will be provided free of cost as well as a light breakfast and lunch. Buses will be leaving from multiple locations in city at 6 AM and returning around 7 PM.

On February 22nd, in a powerful show of force, 600 community members packed the Community Board 12 hearing on the Inwood rezoning with more outside who could not get in. The overwhelming majority of people testified against the plan and its negative impacts calling on the Community Board to "Vote No." Read more about the powerful hearing here. You can join us at our next community rally on Monday, March 19 at 6:30 PM at George Washington High School, 549 Audubon Ave.

Join us for a screening and discussion of United in Anger: A History of ACT UP, featuring a panel and Q&A with Sherry Wolf and Emily Sanderson.

United in Anger tells the story of direct action organization AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) through archival footage and oral histories of ACT UP members. After the screening, early ACT UP activist Sherry Wolf and current ACT UP activist Emily Sanderson will speak and lead a Q&A on the history of ACT UP and the role of direct action in the fight for health justice and socialized health care.

We are working to make this a coalition-building event and will speak out against Israeli pinkwashing. Equal rights for all!*******************************Please join us!Please be a part of the diverse community of activists working for justice in Palestine!

The International Solidarity Movement has been a leader in bringing volunteers from around the world to defend Palestine through nonviolent resistance. In 2002 they made headlines in defending the Nativity Church in Bethlehem and the ancient Nablus Casbah, and documented the destruction and mass killing of Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp. Participants have put their lives on the line – Rachel Corrie was killed trying to prevent demolition of a home in Gaza, and Tom Hurndall was shot and killed by Israeli military forces.

ISM is a Palestinian-led movement, with volunteers from throughout the world. In 2009, 2012 and 2014, ISM volunteers were with the Palestinian people in Gaza, reporting the Israeli invasion and helping in the hospitals, clinics and schools that were attacked even as they served the refugees.

On Monday March 19, 7pm, Brooklyn For Peace is sponsoring an evening with ISM at The Commons, 388 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, to bring us up to date on ISM activities in Palestine, and to bring to Americans a greater awareness of conditions in present-day Palestine. This is a FREE EVENT.

The presentation will include a screening of an abridged version of Radiance of Resistance, a film produced by three ISM volunteers in Nabi Salih and featuring A’had Tamimi and her cousin, Janna Ayyad.The ISM volunteer for the east coast, Joe Catron, reported from Gaza during several major Israeli attacks, including al-Shifa Hospital, as the Israelis threatened to bombard it. He is now an independent reporter on Palestine and the Middle East, and an organizer of many public actions in New York, as well as a widely followed commentator on social media. The Palestinian participant/s will be announced after they successfully get their US and Canadian visas.

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*************************************************************************************************************The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by being immediately alongside Palestinians in olive groves, on school runs, at demonstrations, within villages being attacked, by houses being demolished or where Palestinians are subject to consistent harassment or attacks from soldiers and settlers as well as numerous other situations.

Join us at this forum to learn more from American and Palestinian activists Rana Nazzal and Joe Catron.

Following its own strict guidelines of nonviolence, using direct action and documentation, this Palestinian-led movement seeks to intervene when Israel violates international law in the oppression of Palestinians.

The presentation will include screening of an abridged version of “Radiance of Resistance,” a film produced by three ISM volunteers in Nabi Salih, featuring Ahed Tamimi and her cousin Janna Ayyad.

Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, and Edgar Snow, Red Star over China.

“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, 1938

THE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.

On the 50th anniversary of the global uprisings of 1968, subMedia pays homage to the insurgent youth who helped kick things off a half-century ago by taking a look at some contemporary student-ledmovements that are still tearing things up around the world.

The Saudi Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman, is coming to NYC in the last week of March. Bin Salman is the chief architect of a three-year-long bombing campaign against Saudi Arabia’s neighbor, Yemen. This war is creating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis: thousands of civilian deaths, untold hunger, and a cholera outbreak with a million victims in 2017 alone. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have provided critical support to bin Salman’s war, including arms sales, targeting assistance, and mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers. This support has never been authorized by Congress. We must end our ongoing support for the war on Yemen.Join us at 8:45am on Tuesday 3/20 in front of City Hall as we call on Mayor de Blasio to condemn the Saudi Prince’s visit.Call Congress at 1-833-STOP-WAR (786-7927). Tell your senator to support the Sanders-Lee bill, S.J.Res.54, which uses the War Powers Act to end U.S. support for the illegal war on Yemen.

Join the vigil, every Sat. at 11am in Union Square, NYC. . . .

PROTEST Tues., Mar. 20, 8:45 am

NY City Hall Steps

New Yorkers to Protest Saudi Prince’s Trip to NYC; Call on Mayor & US Senators to Speak Out Against Saudi/US War on Yemen

“For three years now, I have witnessed the total destruction of my ancestors’ homeland and the pain and suffering of family, friends, and millions of innocent Yemenis as my beloved America continues to fuel and support Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen.”

– Rabyaah Althaibani, Yemeni-American activist and one of the protest organizers

WHAT: On Tuesday, March 20, at 8:45 am, New Yorkers will assemble on the steps of City Hall to ask Mayor de Blasio to speak out against the upcoming Saudi prince’s visit to NYC because of his key role in creating the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The demonstrators will call on US Senators Schumer, Gillibrand and Menendez to publicly commit to voting for the Sanders-Lee Yemen Resolution likely to be debated later Tuesday or Wednesday. The resolution would remove US support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen.

WHO: The event is being organized by Yemeni-American community activists and Action Corps NYC and is co-hosted by various organizations, including New York and New Jersey chapters of Veterans For Peace, Peace Committee of 15th St. Quakers, Peace Action New York State, Peace Action Bay Ridge, CODEPINK: Women for Peace, MPower Change, and War Resisters League.

WHY: The war in Yemen is creating what the UN describes the world’s worst humanitarian crisis: thousands of civilian deaths, untold hunger, and a cholera outbreak with a million victims in 2017 alone. Both the Obama and Trump administrations have provided critical support to Prince bin Salman’s war, including arms sales, targeting assistance, and mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers. This support has never been authorized by Congress.

Despite Saudi Arabia’s reported measures to provide humanitarian relief, humanitarian and commercial access remains highly restricted. Protest organizers demand the United States end all support for the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen.

Since March 2015, the U.S. has supported the Saudi coalition in Yemen. U.S. bombs have been used in Yemen against markets, hospitals, funeral halls and residential neighborhoods. The Saudi-led coalition's blockade of commercial goods and humanitarian aid into Yemen has caused much of this suffering. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) have introduced a bill to remove unauthorized US forces from the Saudi-led war in Yemen. The bill is expected to be debated Tuesday or Wednesday.

For the first time in a generation, socialism looks like a political ideology with a future in the United States. Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara and The Nation senior editor Sarah Leonard join Politically Re-Active host Hari Kondabolu to discuss socialism’s resurgent appeal in an age of rising inequality and its prospects for becoming a viable force in American politics.

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Between a dysfunctional subway system, buses that move at walking speeds, and congestion that ranks among the world’s worst, New York City’s transit network has reached its breaking point. But Governor Cuomo and other lawmakers in Albany are playing politics with the best idea out there for fixing our transit system: congestion pricing.

Congestion pricing could fix the subways, make our streets safer, and end gridlock as we know it. That’s why it’s critical that Governor Cuomo and leaders in Albany make it a part of the state’s budget this year. And with only days left in the budget session, they need to hear from transit advocates like us now more than ever.

That’s why we’re holding a RALLY at the governor’s Midtown doorstep: to demand that the governor and Albany finally muster the political will to put the transit-riding public first andPASS CONGESTION PRICING NOW.

New York has a golden chance to comprehensively alleviate our transit crisis. New Yorkers across the five boroughs are ready to support congestion pricing, and the elected leaders willing to fight for it. A broad coalition of transportation, environmental, public health, business, tech, real estate, and labor leaders support the proposal, and the Governor himself has said that congestion pricing is an idea whose “time has come.”

We’ll be calling on the governor to stay true to his word and make solving our transit nightmares and gridlocked streets the highest priority in Albany this year. Hope you’re able to join us.

P.S. If you can’t make it to the rally, or want to do even more to help pass congestion pricing, call Governor Cuomo at 518-474-8390 and tell him you’re a New Yorker who demands congestion pricing NOW.

Transportation Alternatives — Did you know?Only 4% of outer borough commuters drive to Manhattan for work, and on average, those car-owners are wealthy, earning twice as much as ...

Political Organization · New York, New YorkThe Riders Alliance organizes transit riders to advocate for themselves: with the MTA, with the press, and with elected officials throughout New York.

The newly released anthology, Radical Reproductive Justice, illustrates the ways in which the battle for reproductive rights is fundamentally linked to combating systemic oppression rooted in sexism and white supremacy. Join us for this conversation moderated by journalist and editor, Linda Villarosa, along with book editors Loretta Ross and Lynn Roberts, and doulas Morgane Richardson and Rina Crane.

Book signing to follow.

@SchomburgCenter #RadReproductiveJustice

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This \"Dine-alogue\" with Professor Christina Greer will be a discussion of politics - past, present, and future. Professor Greer will also discuss the 2020 Census and consider questions including: \"What is the future of American democracy and the Democratic party?\" \n \nCosponsored by \nThe SIPA Diversity Committee and Dean's Seminar Series on Race and Policy

Come out and join us in a student-led rally against CUNY's financial contribution to Israeli human rights violations. Reclaim your democratic rights by urging CUNY to implement a socially responsible investment policy. Through divestment, we demand that our university takes out our money from companies engaged in violations of international law.

FeaturingApartheid Divest CUNY is a grassroots effort by concerned students asking the University to divest from all companies profiting off of Israeli war crimes and apartheid system

CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S. funded wars and occupations.

Jewish Voice for PeaceJVP is inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law.

Freedom of Expression: The Never-Ending FightWednesday, Mar. 21, 2018 fr/ 6:30 to 8:00 PM in Brooklyn Historical Soc. 128 Pierrepont St., Brooklyn, at Clinton St.; R Train to Court St.; #2, 3, 4, 5 to Borough Hall; A, C, F to Jay - Metrotech; G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; map & transit: https://goo.gl/AWMnfndescription: https://facebook.com/events/370457783415246/https://facebook.com/pg/BrooklynHistory/events/https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory http://brooklynhistory.org/visitor/calendar.htmlAs U.S. Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo wrote, “Freedom of expression is…the indispensable condition of nearly every other form of freedom.” Two titans in this fight, Ira Glasser, head of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001, and Norman Siegel, director of the New York Civil Liberties Union from 1985 to 2000, reflect on the history and ongoing struggle, and reminisce about their shared Brooklyn roots. Moderated by Jarrett Murphy, executive editor and publisher of City Limits.

Presented in partnership with the Brooklyn Jewish Historical Initiative.

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Governments in the Global North have developed increasingly elaborate techniques to keep asylum seekers away from territories where they can ask for sanctuary. Many of these policies comply with the letter of domestic and international laws against returning people to face persecution while violating the spirit of those laws to avoid their perceived costs. A medieval landscape of domes, buffers, moats, cages, and barbicans prevents the unwanted from finding refuge.

In this lecture, David FitzGerald uncovers how these policies are constrained by courts, transnational advocacy networks, and foreign policies that vary sharply by country. FitzGerald is the Theodore E. Gildred chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, professor of sociology, and codirector of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies at the University of California, San Diego.

When you think of deforestation, what comes to mind? For many people it’s bulldozers, burning trees and displaced orangutans. But deforestation is not only devastating rainforests and the species who call them home. Deforestation also has destructive impacts on people, yet their stories remain largely untold.

We hope you will join us on March 21st for The Other Side of Deforestation, a NYC event to draw back the curtain on the human cost of deforestation, by focusing on one of the leading causes of rainforest destruction in the world: Conflict Palm Oil.

At RAN, we’ve been pressuring PepsiCo to cut Conflict Palm Oil for over four years. Field investigations show this snack food giant is linked to palm oil worker exploitation in Indonesia, but the company continues to drag its feet in taking adequate action. The Other Side of Deforestation will debut a short film spotlighting never before seen testimonials from these workers. Following the film, we will conduct a special interview with a palm oil worker — the first time a worker will be speaking out to the international public.

To close the event, a panel of experts from across the movement will discuss the human cost of Conflict Palm Oil, looking at the different systems of oppression that drive deforestation and how addressing these systems will liberate people and the environment.

Recent PostAdam Van Lieberman — Mel Adenosine Dana Alyssa interested?12 hrsRead MoreSee All PostsFeaturingFriends of the Earth U.S.Nonprofit Organization · Washington, District of ColumbiaFriends of the Earth fights to defend the environment and create a more healthy and just world. We are part of a federation of grassroots groups in 76 countries.Rainforest Action NetworkNonprofit Organization · San Francisco, CaliforniaWanna lend RAN a hand? Share this link on your Wall: http://www.facebook.com/rainforestactionnetworkA

Capital is the indispensable sourcebook on Marx’s method for analyzing the economy, politics and struggles. Many of us have less time to study it because, as Marx predicted, we have to work longer hours— and often more than one job—in order to survive. Fortunately, even a basic familiarity with the key concepts of Volume I offers many tools for understanding capitalism’s dynamics. With current conditions, we’ve been offering this highlights approach, breaking down key concepts and sections:

• use value, value and surplus value;
• why capitalism has needed conquest, enslavement and white supremacy;
• why capitalism drives technological innovation, overwork and unemployment and leads to ecological destruction;
• how working-class people (employed and unemployed) have historically won improvements in living and working conditions.

In a continuing quest to increase access for those who have been historically excluded, turned off or silenced by the way this theory is often taught and discussed, we are offering the highlights class this February through April for women only. Everyone who identifies as a woman is welcome.

Participant reports and life experiences are welcome!

The course provides a basic grounding for participants to pursue further study on their own or collectively. We’ll refer to new resources such as on-line and visual aids and current articles that illustrate capitalism’s developmental tendencies, which Marx calls its laws of motion.

Juliet Ucelli has taught labor economics and class/race/gender for labor unions, and was a public high school social worker. She writes on Eurocentrism in Marxist theory, the politics of inner city public schooling and Marxist understandings of human development.
Wed, February 21, 2018 @ 6:30 PM
Wed, April 25, 2018 @ 8:30 PM
$85 - $115
commodity fetishism, Laws of Motion of Capital, precarity, Primitive Accumulation, surplus value, Technological Innovation, unemployment, value, women and capital, working class, Working Class Consciousness

Join the International Socialists to discuss different ways of getting to Socialism and how we can achieve Socialism!

Can we take over the Democratic Party or vote away capitalism? How would a revolution come about? How can we use struggles for reforms to pave the road to revolution?

We'll have a great guest speaker - Fainan Lakha.Fainan Lakha is a socialist organizer, writer, and speaker. She is a contributor to Socialist Worker, where she has written on the politics of transgender oppression and the fight for liberation.

This talk is part of the Socialism Tour 2018, bringing experienced activists and thinkers to cities across the country in the lead-up to this year’s Socialism 2018 Conference in Chicago.

The meeting will be at The Graduate Center, CUNY | Room 5409. All are welcome! You do not need to be a student or alumni - just bring some kind of ID for the front desk to sign in.

FeaturingHunter College SocialistsThis page is dedicated to the views, thoughts and actions of Hunter College Socialists. It is affiliated to the International Socialist Organization.International Socialist Organization - NYU BranchThe ISO is committed to building a revolutionary organization that participates in the struggles for justice, liberation, and socialism.

International Socialist Organization (NYC)We are the New York City district of the International Socialist Organization.

Downtown Socialists - ISOWe are members of the International Socialist Organization. We are centered in Downtown Manhattan, meeting Wednesdays at 7PM at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Why are we doing a lobby day?Rent Stabilization is supposed to limit rent increases and keep our homes affordable. But landlords in NYC and surroundings are taking advantage of two major loopholes in the law, preferential rent and the vacancy bonus, to exploittenants.

266,279 NYC families live in a rent stabilized apartment with a preferential rent - a discount that can be taken away at lease renewal leading to a sudden increase of hundreds of dollars. The vacancy bonus gives landlords a 20% increase in rent each time an apartment turns over, incentivizing harassment of long term tenants.

These bills must be passed at the state level. The NYS Assembly has passed two of these bills and will pass the third easily. The NYS Senate however has yet to act.

What do we want?We want these bills to passed as part of the budget package this year. We are asking the full democratic conference in the senate to co-sponsor the bills. We are also asking for the Independent Democratic Conference (IDC) to include the bills in their proposed budget.

Who will you be meeting with?We will be meeting with Senate Democrats that have yet to co-sponsor, Independent Democratic Conference (IDC)leadership, and Republican members of the Housing Committee.Each team will be given at least two scheduled meetings to attend with legislators or their aids. It is likely that groups willbe meeting with legislators that they are not a constituent of who still needs to co-sponsor the bills. Meeting will be heldin offices and “off the floor”.

Overview of the day:Please note this is subject to change. We ask for everyone’s flexibility and cooperation.● We will be providing transportation that leaving NYC at approximately 6am to arrive in Albany at 9am. We will provide coffee and a light breakfast on the bus.● When we arrive we will split up into lobbying teams of 4 or 5 people.● At around 1pm, we will join the People’s Budget Action in the Empire State Plaza and eat lunch.● We expect to leave Albany around 3pm and arrive back in NYC around 7:30pm

Preparation:We are telling our stories about what is happening to us and our neighborhoods. We also want everyone attending to be as comfortable and informed with the process and facts. We will be sending out materials and doing trainings. There are two lobby day trainings scheduled that all groups are welcome to send their members to:● Queens - Tue March 13th● Manhattan - Wed March 14th.We will also be reviewing everything on the bus as well.

Goddard Riverside Community CenterGoddard Riverside builds community and changes lives through services including early childhood and youth programs, college counseling, supportive housing, employment readiness and assistance to homeless and older adults in Manhattan.

The theme of the 2018 NBWC “Gathering at the Waters: Healing, Legacy, and Activism in Black Literature” acknowledges our concern about the recent, and still continued, issues of social inequality and injustices that challenge us and builds on the legacy of healing through activism. This timely theme will center on the ways in which Black writers use their writing to explore and convey messages that heal and restore our individual selves and collective community. The Conference will also examine the instrumental role that Black writers have played in building our cultural history; the imprint that this has left in Black literature; and how the literature of Black writers has impacted present-day and future generations. And last, we want to look at the significance of activism in writers’ works, that is how a writer’s beliefs and personal vigorous actions are used to support the political and social change they want to see take place in today’s society and in the world.

The People's Budget: Rally at NYS CapitolThursday, Mar 22 fr/ Noon to 1:30 PM at New York State Capitol www.metcouncilonhousing.org/

With every single budget, Cuomo has sold out the working poor. He has failed to pass a budget for the people, a budget that uplifts and frees the black, brown, immigrant families of New York.

If Cuomo claims to be the progressive he claims to be, then he must ensure that he works for the most vulnerable New Yorkers on this budget.

That’s why on Thursday, March 22...days before New York’s budget is due...New Yorkers are uniting to show Cuomo how to be a real progressive. Join us for a rally at the Capitol to demand a #PeoplesBudget for New York!

CUOMO MUST:

HOUSE the homeless. The Governor needs to tax the rich and house the 89,000 New Yorkers who are homeless

PROTECT tenants not developers. Strengthen the rent laws and expand tenant protections across the state.

INVEST in black & brown futures. Pay the $4.2 billion dollars our Public Schools are owed and invest in CUNY and SUNY.

This paper reexamines the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and the extent to which a viable two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was ever truly possible. Such a reexamination seems all the more pertinent today on the hundredth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. It is also seventy years since the UN partition plan to divide historic Palestine and fifty years since UN Security Council Resolution 242, which has been the basis for every peace agreement between Israel and its neighbors but makes no mention of or reference to the Palestinian people. The paper argues that the history of the past fifty years reinforces the claim that a State is central to any attempt to fight Palestinian erasure and ensure “the right to have rights,” as Hannah Arendt put it, but it argues that such an entity needs to be elevated above the nation, rather than made subservient to it if it is to protect the rights of Palestinians and all those living on the land of Palestine.

Bob Herbert has written extensively about racism and politics for The New York Times and other media. Join him for a screening of this documentary where in both poignant and personal terms, he describes the uphill struggle of black families reaching for economic equality in the face of redlining, employment discrimination and other historical inequalities. Talkback follows.

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Screening and Talkback: Against All Odds: The Fight for a Black Middle Class with Bob HerbertThursday, March 22Doors: 6:00 pmEvent: 6:30 pmFree

Your registration helps us to gauge attendance for this program, but please note that it does not guarantee seating. Seating at this program will be on a first-come, first-served basis. The doors open at 6 pm and the program begins at 6:30 pm.

This study group will examine the dire situations ordinary people confront as climate change and related crises accelerate, and the struggles for climate and environmental justice that are arising to meet these challenges. We will look at such cases as Puerto Rico (Irma-Maria), New York (Sandy), and the Mideast (drought, wars, refugees), through lenses provided by Ashley Dawson, Christian Parenti, and others. The latter weeks of the group will take up the new genre of “climate fiction,” reading Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement.

FRED MURPHY has co-led several MEP study groups on Marxism, science, nature, and ecosocialism. He studied and taught historical sociology at the New School for Social Research. STEVE KNIGHT has participated in and co-led MEP study groups on ecosocialism since 2015. His review of Shock of the Anthropocene is forthcoming in the journal Marx & Philosophy.

“My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.” —B. Traven

The writer with the pen name B. Traven appeared on the German literary scene in 1925, when the Berlin daily Vorwärts, the organ of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, published the first short story signed with this pseudonym on 28 February. Soon, it published Traven’s first novel, Die Baumwollpflücker (The Cotton Pickers), of which the first book edition was Der Wobbly, then the common name for members of the Industrial Workers of the World. Traven introduced for the first time the figure of Gerald Gales (in Traven's other works his name is Gale, or Gerard Gales), an American sailor who looks for a job in different occupations in Mexico, often consorting with suspicious characters and witnessing capitalistic exploitation, nevertheless not losing his will to fight and striving to draw joy from life. Mexico was a good place for a European revolutionary refugee to re-make himself. The Mexican Revolution, ten years of armed conflict between 1920 and 1920, had ended the thirty-year dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. The man to be known as the writer B. Traven, abandoned his past and immersed himself in Mexican culture, and by 1935 was receiving favorable reviews in The New York Times. He wrote The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Death Ship, and the six volume series we will read this term.

The Jungle Novels are a group of six novels published in the years 1930–1939 and set just before and during the Mexican Revolution from 1910-20. Traven’s purpose in the Jungle Novels is to describe the conditions of a people who are ripe for revolt, and to trace the beginnings of how consciousness changes and sometimes leads to revolt.

The Jungle NovelsThe Carreta (1930) The hero of The Carreta is an ox-cart driver. More sophisticated than most of his companions who work in debt-slavery in the great mahogany plantations,

Government (1931)Depicts the political corruption that infected even the smallest villages in Mexico, the novel tells the story of Don Gabriel, a minor government functionary who has a virtual license to steal from every village where he is secretary―except there is nothing to steal.

March to the Montería (a.k.a. March To Caobaland) (1933)March to the Montería is the third of B. Traven's six Jungle Novels, set in the great mahogany plantations (monterías) of Mexico in the years before the revolution. Celso works two years on a coffee finca, but when he returns home he must hand over his money to ladinos who claim his father has a debt to them.

Trozas (1936)Trozas (the word means logs) captures the origins of the rebellious spirit that slowly spread through the labor camps and haciendas, culminating in the bloody revolt that ended Porfirio Díaz's rule.

The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936) ISBNThis fifth Jungle Novel culminates in a revolt by the long-oppressed workers against the owners and overseers of the camps, and in a treacherous march through the jungles at the height of the rainy season—a human feat of epic proportions.

A General from the Jungle (1940)Juan Mendez leads an ill-equipped and hungry band against the government forces. With brilliance and cunning, Mendez brutally attacks the federally protected fincas. The sixth and last of The Jungle Novels is filled with marvelously drawn characters, yet the true hero is the army itself―illiterate, uneducated, and poor, but resourceful and dangerous.

THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES READING GROUP which has grown from the enthusiastic call for the need of greater understanding of the long history of the peoples of North America and other continents of the world who were of those continents before and remain after the European colonists came to settle and bring this capitalist relations to every corner of the globe. Our group began following a stirring presentation by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz September of 2014 where she introduced An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States.

The Marxist Education Project is devoted to creating a space for study and dialogue among radicals in a non-sectarian environment.

Introductory remarks from Javier Laureano (EPA2)Panel Discussion on Environmental Justice and plastic pollution with Q&A, moderated by Ana Baptista (The New School) with Javier Laureano (EPA2), Melissa Lachan (NYLPI), students from Cafeteria Culture's PFW program and others to be confirmed

Multi-award winning author Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars trilogy; Three Californias trilogy; New York 2140) makes a rare New York appearance to join theatre artist and climate activist Julia S. Levine (CLIMATE LENS, Artists Rise Up) for a discussion on how art interrogates the climate crisis, and if art can be a catalyst for change. Their conversation will be moderated by Arielle Duhaime-Ross, environment and climate correspondent for HBO's VICE News Tonight.

Julia S. Levine is a theatre artist and producer who is passionate about collaborative processes of playmaking and exploring the inner-workings of the twenty-first century. She uses theatre to pose questions that ignite dialogue, to interrogate dominant narratives, and to pave the way to a more equitable future for all. Levine graduated summa cum laude from Butler University, with Highest Honors in Theatre and a minor in Anthropology. She writes for the online series Artists and Climate Change, is the Artistic Producer of The Arctic Cycle, and creates new performances about food, climate and justice.

Kim Stanley Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus awards. He is the author of twenty previous books, including the acclaimed Mars trilogy, Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, Sixty Days and Counting, The Years of Rice and Salt, Antarctica, and 2312. In 2008 he was named a ''Hero of the Environment'' by Time magazine, and he recently joined in the Sequoia Parks Foundation's Artists in the Back Country program. He lives in Davis, California.

Arielle Duhaime-Ross is the environment and climate correspondent for VICE News Tonight — the Emmy award-winning nightly newscast from VICE Media and HBO. Prior to joining VICE, she was a science reporter at The Verge, where she was granted the 2015 Herb Lampert Science in Society Emerging Journalist award for her coverage of a radical 1950s scientist who suggested memory could be stored outside the brain. Duhaime-Ross has previously written for Scientific American, Nature Medicine, The Atlantic, and Quartz. Originally from Canada, she has a bachelor's in zoology and a master’s in science, health, and environmental reporting.

At VICE News Tonight, Duhaime-Ross has extensively reported the politics of climate change, life-threatening instances of environmental contamination, and the effect that global warming is already having on communities worldwide. She also occasionally covers uplifting news — occasionally.

Banners and Flags Making for April Albany Climate Action . Friday Mar. 23 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM . Saturday Mar. 24 at Noon and 7:00 PM at 69 9th St, Brooklyn, btw. Smith St. & 2nd Av. [Enter driveway a few yards east of the canal bridge, then walk through parking areas to back entrance of 69 9th St. Or conceivably there's some other way in. -t.]

. Bus to lobby Albany w/ Met Council on Housing Thursday Mar. 22 You do not need to attend a prep meeting to join us in Albany. Fill out this form to reserve your seat: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52 ::

The tenants of New York suffer while landlords get rich. Even in rent regulated apartments the rent is too high and our stability is at risk. Nearly 266,000 tenants live with a preferential rent which means their rent can jump hundreds of dollars when their lease is up. On Thursday March 22 , we are getting on the buses to Albany to tell the State Senate they must close the loopholes that are making housing in this city unaffordable. Please join us for a lobby day March 22 . Reserve your seat here: https://goo.gl/forms/4WJVKADOFIlltUX52

Transportation will be provided free of cost as well as a light breakfast and lunch. Buses will be leaving from multiple locations in city at 6 AM and returning around 7 PM.

On February 22nd, in a powerful show of force, 600 community members packed the Community Board 12 hearing on the Inwood rezoning with more outside who could not get in. The overwhelming majority of people testified against the plan and its negative impacts calling on the Community Board to "Vote No." Read more about the powerful hearing here. You can join us at our next community rally on Monday, March 19 at 6:30 PM at George Washington High School, 549 Audubon Ave.

This education-focused conference will have a variety of workshops relevant to educators in varied settings that focus on a diverse range of topics. Critical political analyses will be shared, as are curricular ideas, classroom strategies, community work, and other ideas for inspiring practice. The offered workshops will also contribute to bridging the gap that often exists between educators and young people by bringing the voices of youth into workshop sessions.

NYC -- we're coming back to Brooklyn for a fourth year! Move for mental health with UNRWA USA at the #Gaza5K on Saturday, March 24!

In light of the US Administration's decision to cut funding to UNRWA by 83%, this is a tangible and meaningful way to show your solidarity with Palestine refugees and UNRWA's critical work!

Sign up at gaza5k.org and start fundraising to make access to mental health care a reality for all Palestine refugee children in the Gaza Strip -- our early bird rates save you $15 per registrant when you commit by or before March 7!

We're fundraising to employ 25 UNRWA CMHP* counselors -- refugees themselves -- to provide psychosocial support to Palestine refugee children and families in the Gaza Strip who suffer from trauma due to repeated Israeli military assaults and the continued blockade.

- Fundraise $50 and get an official NYC Gaza 5K t-shirt- Fundraise $500 for a beautiful, classic keffiyeh from the Hirbawi Textile Factory, the last remaining keffiyeh factory in Palestine. They come complete with a “made in Palestine” tag!- Fundraise $1,000 for your very own piece of Palestine! We'll plant an olive tree in your honor in a refugee camp or near an UNRWA facility in the West Bank.

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Never AgainCommunityRun by survivors of the Stoneman Douglas shooting. We are sick of the Florida lawmakers choosing money from the NRA over our safety. #NeverAgain

Banners and Flags Making for April Albany Climate Action . Friday Mar. 23 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM . Saturday Mar. 24 at Noon and 7:00 PM at 69 9th St, Brooklyn, btw. Smith St. & 2nd Av. [Enter driveway a few yards east of the canal bridge, then walk through parking areas to back entrance of 69 9th St. Or conceivably there's some other way in. -t.]

Click here to download a flyer and here to donate for ongoing expenses!

The Jericho Amnesty Movement will be celebrating 20 years of struggle to liberate all U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war on Saturday, March 24, 2018 in New York City at Holyrood Episcopal Church, 715 W. 179th St, New York, New York

During these twenty years, Jericho has provided consistent support to our captured freedom fighters, including visiting them regularly and facilitating family and legal visits. Jericho has also formed legal and medical teams to help our freedom fighters. We have marched, held workshops, forums, and other events to educate people on our political prisoners and to provide much needed assistance to them and their families.

We are inviting those organizations and individuals who have shared some of that history to take out ads in our commemorative journal sending messages of support to Jericho, as well as advertising your organization and/or any upcoming events. The options for ad size are:

The Jericho Amnesty Movement will be celebrating 20 years of struggle to liberate all U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war on

During these twenty years, Jericho has provided consistent support to our captured freedom fighters, including visiting them regularly and facilitating family and legal visits. Jericho has also formed legal and medical teams to help our freedom fighters. We have marched, held workshops, forums, and other events to educate people on our political prisoners and to provide much needed assistance to them and their families.

We are inviting those organizations and individuals who have shared some of that history to take out ads in our commemorative journal sending messages of support to Jericho, as well as advertising your organization and/or any upcoming events. The options for ad size are:

Making for April Albany Climate Action . Friday Mar. 23 from 7:00 to 10:00 PM . Saturday Mar. 24 at Noon and 7:00 PM at 69 9th St, Brooklyn, btw. Smith St. & 2nd Av. [Enter driveway a few yards east of the canal bridge, then walk through parking areas to back entrance of 69 9th St. Or conceivably there's some other way in. -t.]

The Forum for Feminist Discussion of Masculinity is a safe space to discuss the gendered expectations placed on men and boys in a patriarchal society, and how these have affected, and continue to affect, all of us. The forum is open to all, inclusive of gender and level of knowledge of the subject matter. Each month, we will discuss a theme, which will be posted in the facebook group

At this explosive moment in women’s activism, we’ll explore the tremendous achievements and long history of feminists in New York City. After Teen Vogue’s new executive editor shares some thoughts about how the young women and men of “Generation Z” are redefining social activism today, join a conversation with leading writers and scholars illuminating the essential but little-known stories of New York City’s feminist trailblazers and their struggles and triumphs over the last century. Afterward, drop into our Feminist Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon to create and refine Wikipedia pages inspired by our current exhibition, "Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics," and we’ll supply the coffee! Come refuel your intellectual (and activist) engine!

Free, includes Museum admission! The Museum of the City of New York is teaming up with Interference Archive for a coffee-fueled Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon that aims to both expand the historical records of feminist activism on Wikipedia and combat the gender gap in its editing -- less than 10% of Wikipedia editors are women.

Drop in any time between 3:00 pm and 5:30 pm to help create and refine Wikipedia pages associated with the women activists spotlighted in our current exhibition Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics (on view through August 5, 2018).

A training session will be offered at 3:00 pm but help will be available throughout the event.

Participants are required to bring their own laptops and chargers but Wi-Fi access and reference materials will be provided.

Also join us for A City Made by Women: A Symposium, a ticketed program that will be held earlier on the same day, Sunday, March 25 from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm. The program will reflect on the tremendous achievements of feminist activism in NYC with Teen Vogue’s new executive editor and leading scholars and writers. For more information and to purchase tickets, click here.

About Interference Archive: Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements located in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn.

Israeli Apartheid Week Mar 26 - Mar 30 (IAW) is an international series of events meant to shed a light on the Israeli settler colonial project and build the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", and with it 70 years of Palestinian resistance against the ongoing Zionist project of settler-colonialism and dispossession. IAW will be an opportunity to reflect on this history of resistance and further advance BDS campaigns for the continued growth and impact of the movement. Despite all the legislative attacks on BDS internationally, IAW and the BDS movement continue to build linkages and solidarity with other struggles to achieve freedom, justice, and equality.

For IAW at Columbia, we've organized a week of programming meant to educate about Palestine, its history and struggles, as well as how it intersects with other indigenous struggles around the world.

As per tradition, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine will be installing our mock apartheid wall for display on Low Plaza Mon-Fri, March 26th-29th from 11am to 4pm. Columbia/Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace will be tabling at the Sundial. Drop by for fact sheets, information on our amazing lineup of events, and for answers to any other questions you might have.

#IAW2018 SCHEDULE:

Mock Apartheid Wall
Every day!
11am-4pm
Low Plaza

I IS FOR INTIFADA, a presentation
Monday, February 26th | 7:30pm | Math 203
What is intifada? Why does this word consistently incite controversy— most recently in the form of a censored children’s book? To find out, join CUAD for our first IAW event, a presentation on the political history of the Palestinian intifadas and their lasting significance.
https://www.facebook.com/events/169195260467584/

HEAR IT FROM A ZIONIST, a film screening
Wednesday, March 28th | 7:30pm | ROOM TBA
Columbia SJP presents the other side: come and hear what the anti-Zionists aren't saying.
https://www.facebook.com/events/159174044791948/

STITCHING PALESTINE, a film screening
Friday. March 30th | 1:00pm | Havemeyer 209
This documentary film from Carol Mansour profiles 12 Palestinian women from around the world and their moving life stories, connected by the enduring thread of the ancient art of embroidery.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1973457252916758/

Join the Race and Public Space Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge for a discussion of Sir Hilary Beckles’ Britain’s Black Debt: Reparations for Slavery and Native Genocide, while discussing his role in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Reparations Commission's lawsuit against European nations involved with colonial slavery.

Can't make it? Watch the live-stream on Facebook or Instagram.

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THE REPARATIONS PROJECT
During the Spring of 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

This inquiry will take the form of common readings to explore and frame the central issues, lectures by experts to interrogate the stakes, legal research to evaluate the case, and economic and statistical analysis to explore the feasibility of reparations for peoples and nations victimized by colonial slavery.

The Reparations Project
During Spring 2018, the Race and Public Space (RAPS) Workshop of the Institute for Public Knowledge will explore the prospect of reparations for Transatlantic slavery and colonialism, widely recognized as one of the most horrific events in world history.

Is political violence ever justified? Antifa (short for “anti-fascist”), a loose affiliation of groups united in their opposition to authoritarianism, rampant capitalism, and white supremacy, has come under fire for its counter-protest methods in the past year. Mark Bray, author of Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook, discusses the controversial movement and its rising prominence in Trump-era America.

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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University whose work on the history and politics of Black America has examined the realities of race and structural inequality in incarceration, housing policies, police violence, and unemployment. Shaun King is a writer for The Intercept and Harvard Law School’s Fair Punishment Project as well as an activist who has rapidly risen to become one of the most public faces fighting for justice and families, and against brutality and discrimination. Join them for a crucial conversation on the America they see today, and the one they envision for tomorrow.

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Of 20th-century revolutions, the upheaval in China that culminated in the declaration in 1949 of the People’s Republic was arguably just as significant as the Russian Revolution of 1917. Beginning this January, the Revolutions Reading Group undertakes an in-depth study of that 40-year struggle, from the overthrow of the monarchy in 1911 to the victory of the Communist Party after World War II. Readings to include Lucien Bianco, Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, and Edgar Snow, Red Star over China.

“On the fringes of big Chinese cities the shadows of lofty factory chimneys fall across fields still tilled with wooden ploughs. On the wharves of seaports modern liners unload goods carried away on the backs of men or shipped inland on primitive barges. In the streets great trucks and jangling trams roar past carts drawn by men harnessed like animals to their loads. Sleek automobiles toot angrily at man-drawn rickshaws and barrows which thread their way through the lanes of traffic. Streets, lined with shops where men and women still fashion their wares with bare hands and simple tools, lead to huge mills run by humming dynamos. Aeroplanes and railways cut across vast regions linked otherwise only by footpaths and canals a thousand years old. Modern steamers ply the coasts and rivers, churning past junks of ancient design. Throughout the towns and villages, and on the tired land of the vast river valleys that stretch from the sea to the heart of Asia, these contradictions and contrasts multiply. They embody the struggle of nearly half a billion people for existence and survival.”—opening paragraph of Tragedy of the Chinese Revolution, Harold Isaacs, 1938

THE REVOLUTIONS STUDY GROUP (originally at the Brecht Forum) has been meeting since 2009. Individual participants have come and gone, however the group has held together, studying in depth a wide range of history including the French Revolution, the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917, the Mau-Mau Revolt in Kenya, the Haitian Revolution, the European Revolutions of 1848, the May movement in France of 1968 and the Hot Autumn of Italy the following year, the Spanish Civil War, the Mexican Revolution, the Socialist (2nd) International, and Russian Social Democracy prior to World War I. The RSG has just completed a year-long examination of the German Revolutionary period of 1918-1924.

Israeli Apartheid Week Mar 26 - Mar 30 (IAW) is an international series of events meant to shed a light on the Israeli settler colonial project and build the growing Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.

This year marks the 70th anniversary of the Nakba, or "catastrophe", and with it 70 years of Palestinian resistance against the ongoing Zionist project of settler-colonialism and dispossession. IAW will be an opportunity to reflect on this history of resistance and further advance BDS campaigns for the continued growth and impact of the movement. Despite all the legislative attacks on BDS internationally, IAW and the BDS movement continue to build linkages and solidarity with other struggles to achieve freedom, justice, and equality.

For IAW at Columbia, we've organized a week of programming meant to educate about Palestine, its history and struggles, as well as how it intersects with other indigenous struggles around the world.

As per tradition, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine will be installing our mock apartheid wall for display on Low Plaza Mon-Fri, March 26th-29th from 11am to 4pm. Columbia/Barnard Jewish Voice for Peace will be tabling at the Sundial. Drop by for fact sheets, information on our amazing lineup of events, and for answers to any other questions you might have.